The article explains how DevOps evolution models, CI/CD pipeline modeling, and the Software Factory approach—combined with SAFe principles—help large enterprises achieve faster delivery, higher quality, and greater business agility in the digital era.
This guide introduces the lightweight Docker GUI tool Portainer, walks through a two‑step Docker‑based installation, and demonstrates key features such as dashboard overview, container logs, stats, console access, image and network management, user roles, and registry configuration.
The CNCF 2020‑2021 Cloud Native Survey in China reveals rapid growth in container usage, widespread adoption of Kubernetes, increased reliance on public cloud, expanding CI/CD and serverless practices, and a surge in the use of CNCF projects, highlighting the maturing cloud‑native ecosystem across Chinese enterprises.
This guide details a complete GitLab‑based CI/CD workflow that starts with issue and milestone creation, defines feature‑branch pipelines, builds and tests Java applications, performs code analysis, creates Docker images, and deploys to Kubernetes with controlled pipeline triggers and rollback strategies.
This article explains what a CI/CD pipeline is, why it is essential for DevOps, outlines its standard stages, discusses implementation steps and tool‑selection principles, highlights current cloud‑native trends, and warns against common anti‑patterns that can hinder continuous delivery.
This article introduces the Jenkins Deploy Dashboard plugin, explains how to visualize deployment status across environments, and provides step‑by‑step instructions with code examples for adding deployments to the dashboard, creating the view, and adding deployment buttons to pipelines.
When a critical bug and a performance‑heavy jar collide, this guide walks through four practical Git rollback strategies—revert, reset, rebase + revert, and a pure file‑copy method—explaining their commands, pitfalls, and when each is appropriate.
The article outlines twenty‑four essential capabilities across continuous delivery, architecture, product and process, lean management, and culture, derived from the Accelerate research, providing practical guidance for organizations seeking high‑performance software delivery.
The 2021 China DevOps Survey, launched by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology with nearly 40 industry partners, invites organizations to assess their DevOps maturity, offers a free report and gifts, and builds on 2020 findings that show growing adoption and varied maturity levels across sectors.
This article surveys the most popular open‑source projects for Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps, covering monitoring, deployment, chaos testing, and observability tools such as Cloudprober, Istio, Prometheus, Litmus, and more, highlighting their key features and how they help build scalable, high‑reliability cloud‑native systems.
This article explains how Nexus Repository can serve as a centralized, enterprise‑grade Docker and Helm registry, detailing repository types, configuration steps, and practical commands for creating, exposing, and using a private container registry within a Kubernetes environment.
This article explains how to integrate the SonarQube Sonar Secrets plugin into a CI/CD pipeline to provide early security feedback, detect hard‑coded credentials, build and install the plugin, configure SonarQube, and enable secret scanning for Java and JavaScript projects.
This article introduces Redis, explains why it is popular, describes the architecture of a Redis Cluster, and provides a complete step‑by‑step tutorial for deploying, initializing, validating, and testing a Redis Cluster on Kubernetes with sample code and a hit‑counter application.
This article provides a comprehensive technical overview of Docker’s client‑server architecture, detailing the roles of Docker Client, Daemon, Engine, Jobs, Registry, Graph, drivers, Libcontainer, and how they work together to create and run isolated containers.
This article surveys the 11 most popular open‑source DevOps tools—including Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Prometheus, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, JAMStack, and ELK Stack—while also highlighting the DevOps Foundation certification that helps professionals master these technologies.
This article reviews twenty popular CI/CD tools that can replace Jenkins, highlighting each platform's key features such as parallel testing, Docker integration, cloud provider support, and ease of configuration, helping teams choose the best fit for their DevOps workflow.
This article introduces Prometheus fundamentals, its architecture and metric types, then walks through a complete Kubernetes deployment—including namespace, RBAC, ConfigMap, and various exporters—showing how to collect metrics, configure alerts, and visualize data with Grafana, while highlighting limitations and future improvements.
This article explains why monitoring is essential for production stability, compares white‑box and black‑box approaches, details the advantages of Prometheus, walks through its architecture, metric types, query language, high‑availability strategies with Thanos, and provides practical Kubernetes deployment manifests and configuration tips.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Docker’s overall architecture and detailed analysis of its core components—including client, daemon, engine, registry, graph database, drivers, and libcontainer—explaining how they interact to manage containers, images, networking, and execution within a cloud‑native environment.
This article, based on a Volcano Engine developer community meetup, compares Spring Cloud and cloud‑native technologies, explains their evolution, and demonstrates how to replace Spring Cloud’s core capabilities—such as configuration, service discovery, traffic management, and auto‑scaling—with Kubernetes, Istio, and other cloud‑native tools.
The article outlines the six essential DevOps capabilities—collaboration, automation, continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous delivery, and continuous monitoring—explaining how each contributes to improving efficiency, reducing errors, and ensuring reliable software delivery in modern IT environments.
The 2020‑2021 Cloud‑Native Technology Landing Survey, conducted by CNBPA, Lingqu Cloud and the Cloud‑Native Community, collected 783 responses from finance, manufacturing, energy, pharma, telecom and government sectors, revealing that cloud‑native adoption—including containers, DevOps, micro‑services, Kubernetes, Service Mesh and cloud‑native databases—has roughly doubled in production environments and is now the primary driver of digital transformation in traditional enterprises.
This article provides an in‑depth comparison of Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, covering their histories, core features, strengths, weaknesses, and practical guidance to help DevOps professionals choose the most suitable continuous integration and delivery platform for their specific project requirements.
The article explains how low‑code platforms improve R&D efficiency by offering visual coding, drag‑and‑drop model design, streamlined UI creation, integrated workflow tools, and DevOps capabilities, while comparing lightweight and heavyweight solutions and discussing their suitable scenarios and limitations.
The 2020 China DevOps Status Survey reveals that while over 60% of companies have adopted DevOps, many still struggle to assess its success, highlighting key performance criteria, maturity levels, and ongoing challenges such as expertise gaps and metric definition.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservice architecture, covering its definition, history, differences from monolithic and SOA approaches, core characteristics, practical implementation steps, common design patterns, advantages and challenges, and a mindset shift toward DevOps and Docker.
Kubernetes 1.21, the first 2021 release, introduces 51 enhancements—including stable CronJobs, immutable Secrets/ConfigMaps, dual‑stack IPv4/IPv6 support, graceful node shutdown, and new health monitoring for PersistentVolumes—while deprecating PodSecurityPolicy and TopologyKeys and offering a suite of new beta and stable features for cloud‑native workloads.
This article provides a detailed guide on implementing CI/CD pipelines for microservices using Jenkins, GitLab webhooks, and GitOps, covering repository setup, pipeline stages, code snippets for Jenkinsfiles, webhook configuration, image building, and deployment with Helm in a cloud‑native environment.
This tutorial demonstrates how to gather Nginx access and error logs using Filebeat, Logstash, and Rsyslog, configure each component, and ship the logs to an Elasticsearch cluster for visualization in Kibana, offering three practical collection methods.
The author, despite not being an avid reader, curates a personal list of twenty essential Agile and DevOps books—ranging from novel‑style introductions to practical guides—offering brief insights on each title to help readers deepen their understanding of agile practices and DevOps culture.
This article outlines ten practical techniques—from avoiding chat tools for SQL transmission to using soft deletes, backup tables, and proper field management—to help developers, testers, and DBAs safeguard production databases against accidental data loss and costly errors.
This guide walks through installing required tools, configuring Postfix, adding the GitLab repository, installing GitLab CE on a Kubernetes master, adjusting default ports in GitLab’s configuration files, reloading the setup, and accessing the service via a web browser.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservice concepts, their differences from traditional SOA, the benefits of agility, scalability and independent deployment, and details RongShu Data's architectural choices, technology stack, design principles, DevOps platform, team organization, and practical implementation guidelines.
This article explains the fundamentals of CI/CD within DevOps, compares leading CI/CD tools, outlines a four‑stage implementation process, and details the numerous benefits such as faster delivery, higher quality, improved productivity, and reduced costs.
This article examines how result‑oriented DevOps drives digital transformation while exposing digital risks—from missing high‑level test scenarios and broken security data links to insufficient user‑experience foresight—and outlines strategies for data governance, risk mitigation, and effective decision‑support across the enterprise.
The article analyzes the instability of a company's Kubernetes clusters, identifies root causes such as unstable release processes, lack of monitoring, logging, and documentation, and proposes comprehensive solutions including a Kubernetes‑centric CI/CD pipeline, federated Prometheus monitoring, Elasticsearch logging, centralized documentation, and integrated traffic management with Kong and Istio.
This article explains why monitoring is essential for production stability, introduces Prometheus fundamentals, metric naming conventions, query types, and high‑availability solutions such as Thanos federation, then walks through a complete Kubernetes deployment including StatefulSets, RBAC, Pushgateway, Alertmanager, and Ingress configuration.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), explaining its origins, definition by Google, required skill sets, typical responsibilities, tools used, and how the role has evolved within DevOps and modern cloud‑native environments.
This article examines how the rise of cloud computing, DevOps, AIOps, and FinOps is reshaping the role, boundaries, and best‑practice characteristics of modern IT operations, highlighting new trends, automation standards, security responsibilities, and cost‑optimization strategies.
The article reviews eight major DevOps trends expected in 2021—including infrastructure automation, application release orchestration, evolving toolchains, DevSecOps, APM, cloud‑management platforms, AgileOps, and chaos engineering—while also offering the author’s own forecasts for how DevOps, CI/CD, cloud‑native, AI, and people‑centric practices will shape the industry in the coming years.
On March 25 2021, China’s Information and Communication Research Institute, together with the Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance and Open Operations Alliance, hosted the fifth “DevOps System Safeguarding Enterprise Digital Transformation” online event, presenting evaluation results, expert talks, a Q&A session, and an overview of the enterprise‑level DevOps empowerment program.
This guide provides a comprehensive collection of Docker commands for inspecting container information, managing images (listing, searching, pulling, removing, building), and operating containers (starting, stopping, attaching, executing commands, viewing logs, inspecting, committing, and copying files) with practical examples.
This article details how Fangduoduo built an integrated, cloud‑native CI/CD release system—combining Vue front‑end, Python back‑end, Jenkins, Gerrit, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes—to automate builds, deployments, version control, testing, and service maintenance, dramatically boosting development efficiency.
This article presents a curated list of popular open‑source tools for monitoring, deployment, chaos testing, and reliability engineering, explaining their main features and how they help SREs and DevOps engineers build scalable, highly available cloud‑native systems.
This article analyzes the most influential DevOps trends for 2021, including the rise of DevSecOps, AI‑driven AIOps, infrastructure automation, chaos engineering, serverless adoption, hybrid cloud, GitOps, and edge computing, backed by market forecasts and expert predictions.
SPD Bank’s four major systems—an enterprise micro‑service platform, cash‑flow analysis, fund‑supervision, and financial IC‑card services—successfully passed the Level‑3 Continuous Delivery assessment of the national DevOps standard, showcasing a leading‑edge, organization‑wide DevOps capability that boosts delivery speed, quality, and agility.
An interview with China Mobile Suzhou's chief scientist reveals how their "China Mobile Sentiment" project achieved a Level‑3 DevOps continuous delivery assessment, boosting delivery speed, release success, and operational confidence while outlining future scaling plans.
Jiangsu Mobile’s Alading marketing empowerment project recently passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing significant improvements in delivery speed, automation, and quality, while the interview reveals the team’s strategies, tooling, metrics, challenges, and future plans for scaling DevOps across the organization.
GitOps automates infrastructure management by applying DevOps best practices such as version control, code review, and CI/CD pipelines, using declarative IaC stored in Git to enable reliable, observable, and secure deployments across cloud‑native environments.
This article examines why traditional testing must evolve for agile development, outlines the challenges of frequent builds, limited sprint time, performance and API testing, and provides practical guidance on planning, scope selection, parallel execution, DevOps integration, and choosing the right automation tools to boost collaboration and quality.
An interview with ByteDance engineer Xie Ning reveals how Redis can be transformed into a cloud‑native service on Kubernetes, covering the use of Deployments, StatefulSets, Operator patterns, dynamic storage provisioning, and the operational benefits over traditional physical‑machine deployments.
This article introduces the importance of APIs in modern software development and presents a curated list of fifteen leading open‑source API management platforms, detailing their key features such as rate limiting, authentication, analytics, and developer portals to help developers choose the right solution.
The article explains how DevOps extends digital value across the entire software delivery lifecycle, enabling lean IT organizations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and align technical and business operations through scenario‑based digital operations and accurate data and language integration.
The article examines how the rapid adoption of cloud computing, DevOps, AIOps, and FinOps is reshaping the role of IT operations, highlighting new trends, evolving work boundaries, and the essential characteristics of a modern, automated, secure, and cost‑optimized operations system.
This article explains DevOps as the integration of development and operations, defines continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD), contrasts them with agile development, and illustrates how these practices streamline software delivery, testing, and production deployment.
This guide explains how to create a Dockerfile for a Java JAR, describes the purpose of each Docker instruction, shows how to build the image, run the container with proper ports and volumes, and view container logs.
This article describes how Worktile introduced Scrum, built an 8‑person self‑organizing Scrum team for the Lesschat product, iterated through two‑week Sprints, identified and solved scaling challenges, and eventually evolved into a multi‑team, hundred‑person agile R&D organization with continuous delivery practices.
The article outlines eight major 2021 DevOps trends—including the rise of microservices, increased DevSecOps adoption, infrastructure automation, predictive analytics in AIOps, AgileOps, AI/ML‑driven pipelines, Kubernetes integration, and cloud management platforms—highlighting their benefits and future impact on software delivery.
To meet the LEDAO platform’s need for rapid anomaly detection, full‑stack observability, and reliable alerting across more than 100 microservices, iQIYI evaluated OpenFalcon, Prometheus and CAT, selected CAT, deployed separate mainland and overseas clusters, added configurable access, health‑check and integrated alert channels, enabling five‑minute service onboarding, near‑zero‑intrusion instrumentation, and real‑time business‑level monitoring.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of modern DevOps practices and popular tools—including version control, containerization, orchestration, automation, collaboration, and monitoring—explaining their purposes, key features, and how they fit into the software delivery lifecycle.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Argo Workflows, covering its core concepts, installation of both controller and client, detailed examples of workflows, templates, variables, reusable WorkflowTemplate and ClusterWorkflowTemplate resources, and a practical CI/CD pipeline implementation on Kubernetes.
This article details Minsheng Bank's data middle platform built since 2018, explaining its cloud‑native architecture, the underlying microservice and container design, the operational pain points it addresses, and the suite of DevOps tools, management solutions, and component strategies that enable scalable, secure, and efficient financial data services.
This article walks through deploying the open‑source mall‑swarm project using Docker for supporting services on a base server and Kubernetes on an application server, covering image packaging, Docker Compose setup, Rancher installation, Nacos configuration, YAML deployments, and Nginx reverse‑proxy access, with full command examples.
The article explains how adopting a "special forces" style organizational structure—small, cross‑functional squads with clear goals and boundaries—can improve R&D efficiency, adaptability to changing business needs, performance assessment, and career development within modern software companies.
When a software organization exceeds one hundred members, merely copying existing DevOps practices is insufficient; instead, a three‑step approach—normalization, standardization, and platformization—must be applied to restructure teams, enable measurable outcomes, and sustain scalable efficiency across the enterprise.
This guide walks you through Helm V3’s key features, shows step‑by‑step commands to create deployments, services, and ingress resources, demonstrates installing and customizing a Helm chart, and explains how to upgrade, scale, and roll back applications on a Kubernetes cluster.
In this talk, Guoxin Securities’ operations expert Cai Hua outlines the architecture and massive user base of the Gold Sun mobile trading app, examines the unique operational challenges of securities platforms, and details the company’s comprehensive technical‑operations framework—including CMDB accuracy, automation, standardized release pipelines, multi‑layer monitoring, and full‑chain capacity testing—to ensure stability, scalability, and future innovation.
This article clarifies the distinction between deployment and release, explores historical shifts, and details contemporary strategies such as continuous deployment, on‑demand release, blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray releases, A/B testing, and feature toggles, illustrated with real‑world Facebook case studies.
This article explains how a rapidly growing tech team re‑engineered its DevOps toolchain—covering planning, building, testing, releasing, monitoring, CMDB design, and CI/CD improvements—to boost development efficiency, reduce coordination costs, and support a container‑based micro‑service architecture.
This weekly roundup covers Google’s GKE Autopilot managed Kubernetes service, Microsoft’s upcoming low‑code Power Fx language, a new quantum assembly language from Sandia, JD Cloud’s Jinggang virtualization platform, Google‑Intel cloud‑native 5G collaboration, Nvidia’s Jarvis AI framework, a knowledge‑infused BERT model, and a region‑based facial action unit detection method.
This guide walks you through installing GitLab Runner via Docker, configuring its types and states, registering it with a GitLab instance, and creating a simple .gitlab-ci.yml pipeline to verify end‑to‑end CI/CD functionality.
This article introduces the first rule of the "101 R&D Management Rules" series, explaining how a disciplined two‑week iteration cycle builds rhythm, culture, and productivity in a large development team while aligning with OKR goals and leveraging the PingCode tool.
Youzan migrated its large‑scale offline Spark workloads from YARN to a cloud‑native Kubernetes architecture, separating storage and compute with Ceph FS, adding dynamic executor allocation and remote shuffle services, and applying numerous Spark and deployment tweaks that yielded elastic scaling, higher resource utilization, reduced costs, and valuable operational lessons.
This article explains DevOps as the integration of development and operations, defines Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD), clarifies their relationship, and briefly touches on Agile development, providing a clear overview of modern software delivery practices.
This article explains how DevOps evolution intertwines with the surge of internet services, outlines its three conceptual phases, and demonstrates how digital visualization—both terminal‑focused and scenario‑focused—enhances organizational efficiency, quality, and decision‑making during enterprise digital transformation.
This guide explains how to install SonarQube and Sonar‑scanner, configure scanning parameters, add the Sonar‑GitLab plugin, and use additional properties to link scan results to GitLab commit statuses, enabling pipeline‑based merge request control.
The author chronicles his experience learning coaching, treats coaching as a product, and demonstrates how applying MVP principles and a DevOps mindset—through iterative releases, feedback loops, and metrics like lead time and NPS—can transform personal development into a systematic, customer‑focused process.
This comprehensive guide walks through the essential layers of a backend technology stack—languages, components, processes, and systems—offering practical recommendations on project management, DNS, load balancing, databases, monitoring, and deployment to help startups design a robust, cloud‑native backend architecture.
This guide walks through the essential layers of a backend technology stack for startups, covering language choices, core components like DNS, load balancing, CDN, RPC frameworks, databases, messaging, logging, monitoring, configuration, deployment, and operational best‑practice processes.
This article examines the rise of Serverless computing in China, comparing major providers, analyzing adoption trends, highlighting technical and operational challenges, and offering practical guidance for developers and enterprises seeking cost‑effective, scalable solutions.
This article introduces the Python‑based WebSSH tool that lets you access Linux machines through a web browser, outlines its key features, provides step‑by‑step installation and service‑startup commands, and explains how to configure root login for seamless remote management.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide on upgrading GitLab versions, explains new CI/CD features in GitLab 13.8 such as exit‑code‑controlled job failures, rule‑based variables, Docker pull policies, artifact retention settings, predefined variables, and shows how to visualize pipeline configurations with code examples.
This article examines the rapid rise of Serverless computing in 2021, analyzes market dynamics, highlights technical and operational challenges such as language support, cold starts, and package size, and offers practical guidance for developers and enterprises to adopt Serverless effectively while optimizing cost and performance.
This article provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on installing Prometheus, configuring its components, deploying it in a Kubernetes cluster with proper RBAC and persistent storage, and extending monitoring to applications and exporters using /metrics endpoints.
This article explains the cloud native paradigm—originating from Matt Stine in 2013—and its core components such as DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, agile infrastructure, and the Twelve‑Factor App, showing how they enable resilient, scalable applications built directly on cloud services.
This article explains Jenkins declarative pipelines, showing how to define pipelines in a Jenkinsfile, use agents, stages, steps, and optional features like Docker agents, environment variables, timeouts, and post‑actions, with practical code examples for building and archiving Java applications.
This guide explains how to allocate and control CPU and memory for containers and Pods in Kubernetes, covering resource units, request and limit settings, ResourceQuota objects, LimitRange defaults, practical YAML examples, and useful monitoring tools.
The article examines how data teams can select the appropriate Ops framework—DataOps, MLOps, or AIOps—by comparing their origins, principles, responsibilities, and tooling, and stresses that cultural principles outweigh technology choices for efficient delivery of data and machine‑learning products.
This article provides an extensive overview of the most popular Docker‑related tools—including orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, security, storage, networking, service discovery, image building, and management solutions—detailing their core features, official websites, pricing models, and typical use cases for developers and operations engineers.
This guide walks through setting up a three‑node Zookeeper ensemble, configuring ActiveMQ with replicated LevelDB storage, and starting the services on each host, providing full command‑line steps, configuration snippets, and verification screenshots for a production‑grade deployment.
This comprehensive guide explains the differences between deployment and release, defines continuous deployment and on‑demand release, and details practical strategies such as blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray, and A/B testing, supported by feature toggles, feature branches, and real‑world Facebook case studies.
This guide explains Ansible playbooks, their required hosts and tasks sections, optional fields like name and become, YAML indentation rules, module usage, and demonstrates creating and executing a playbook that installs and starts Apache on a target host.
This article explores Alibaba’s massive cloud‑native investments since 2017, Zhang Lei’s historic election to the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, his pivotal contributions to Kubernetes and open‑source projects, and his vision for the evolving cloud‑native ecosystem in China and beyond.
DiDi’s NodeX initiative unites multiple front‑end teams to create a group‑level, professional, efficient, and stable Node.js development ecosystem that provides reusable components, a unified framework, common services, performance‑analysis tools, and documentation platforms, dramatically lowering service‑building barriers and boosting business productivity.
GrowingIO’s QA leader shares the company’s CI/CD journey, detailing the concepts of continuous integration, delivery, deployment, the tools and branch strategies used, and the challenges and improvements in their SaaS product’s DevOps pipeline, offering practical insights for teams building efficient release processes.
This guide explains Ansible variable naming conventions, the three scopes (global, play, host/group), and demonstrates each with clear playbook snippets, showing how to define, import, and override variables using command‑line options, vars, vars_files, host_vars, and group_vars.
This guide walks through installing GitLab CE on CentOS 8 via an RPM package, adjusting the gitlab.rb configuration, managing the GitLab service, testing access, and optionally connecting GitLab to an external PostgreSQL database running in Docker.
This article introduces Knative as a Kubernetes‑based serverless platform, explains its three core components, walks through deploying a Hello World service with YAML and kubectl commands, shows how configuration changes create revisions, demonstrates traffic splitting, and illustrates integration with external services such as Twilio.
The IDCF 6th DevOps case study event featured four expert groups presenting in‑depth analyses of continuous operations, collaborative development, CI/CD pipelines, and testing practices, highlighting practical insights, tool comparisons, and real‑world case studies that earned the testing team the best‑case award.
Microsoft's Windows Terminal Preview 1.6 introduces an alpha Settings UI, requires manual binding via settings.json, and adds automatic backups of previous settings files, with detailed steps and code snippets to help users enable and locate the new interface.
