DevOps combines development and operations practices, requiring knowledge of software development concepts, Linux, networking, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, orchestration, monitoring, infrastructure as code, scripting, and version control, with tools such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, and Git.
This guide explains why Helm is essential for managing Kubernetes applications, describes its three core concepts—charts, releases, and repositories—and shows how to integrate Helm with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and a Sonatype Nexus Helm repository using practical command‑line examples.
The article explains the origins and differences of DevOps, DataOps, MLOps and AIOps, outlines their shared seven principles, and provides practical guidance on adopting the right X‑Ops culture to accelerate data‑driven and machine‑learning‑powered software delivery.
This guide presents a comprehensive checklist of production‑grade Kubernetes best practices, covering container image selection, registry management, namespace isolation, labeling, security controls, CI/CD, monitoring, service mesh adoption, and advanced features to keep clusters stable, secure, and efficient.
From 2020 to 2021, Zhenkunxing built a visual‑editing service, a unified UI component library, standardized development, compilation and deployment pipelines, a front‑end portal, an online‑form system, an OKR tool, and a micro‑frontend BOSS platform, while planning a low‑code platform to boost efficiency and scalability.
This guide walks through installing HashiCorp Vault on Linux and Kubernetes, configuring it for secret management, enabling Kubernetes authentication, creating policies and roles, and accessing secrets via initContainers or the Vault SDK, providing a complete end‑to‑end secure integration.
This guide walks you through installing the Mattermost Jira plugin, setting up webhook secrets, linking Jira application URLs, configuring Mattermost commands, and creating Jira issues directly from Mattermost to streamline DevOps collaboration without leaving the chat platform.
In a 2020 interview at the GOLF+ IT Governance Leadership Forum, TaiKang Insurance Group detailed its DevOps transformation, highlighting a 60% deployment efficiency gain, automated testing improvements, cross‑departmental challenges, and future 2021 plans to expand automation, Kubernetes integration, and DevSecOps initiatives.
This article explains the twenty‑one key non‑functional characteristics of software architecture—such as performance, reliability, scalability, security and maintainability—detailing their definitions, typical metrics, and practical techniques for improvement, while linking each trait to ISO‑25010 and real‑world engineering practices.
StackStorm is an open‑source automation platform that connects existing infrastructure and applications, enabling event‑driven actions, workflow orchestration, and rule‑based operations across services such as monitoring, deployment, and incident response.
This guide walks through Kubernetes fundamentals—including Pods, Controllers, Services, Labels, and Namespaces—and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for migrating a Java project to a Kubernetes cluster, building Docker images, pushing to Docker Hub, creating deployments, and exposing the service.
The article chronicles how the fast‑growing startup Meddy transformed its monolithic AWS setup by adopting managed services such as RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticsearch, Application Load Balancer, serverless Lambdas, ElastiCache, and Grafana Loki to achieve scalable, reliable, and observable cloud infrastructure.
The article explains how to design and evolve agile R&D organization structures—from a small startup team to medium, large, and multinational groups—by applying high‑cohesion, low‑coupling, and full‑functionality principles, using Spotify’s squad‑tribe‑chapter‑guild model and rotation mechanisms to eliminate bottlenecks and single points of failure.
This guide explains GitLab CI/CD concepts, configuration files, runner setup, pipeline stages, and advanced features like Auto DevOps, providing step‑by‑step examples and code snippets for practical implementation.
This guide shows how to create matching repositories on GitHub and Gitee, configure a single local Git repository to push to both remotes, and keep them synchronized automatically, providing step‑by‑step commands, config file edits, and practical tips for developers.
This article defines DevOps, outlines its benefits and drawbacks, and explains key concepts such as automation, CI/CD, multi‑environment deployments, early failure detection, rollback, policy enforcement, and observability, showing how they collectively improve software delivery and organizational collaboration.
This guide walks through preparing the Linux environment on Kubernetes master and node machines, creating a bare Git repository, configuring SSH access, cloning the repository, and demonstrating core Git commands such as add, commit, status, diff, and push to a remote server.
This guide explains how to improve the Jenkins UI by installing the Simple Theme plugin, applying an online Material CSS theme, and creating a local CSS file for further customization, complete with step‑by‑step instructions and code snippets.
This article explains why and how to replace Jenkins Freestyle projects with Pipeline jobs, detailing the limitations of Freestyle, the benefits of Pipeline, and providing a complete scripted pipeline example that automates code checkout, building, testing, reporting, and email notifications.
In an exclusive interview at the 2020 GOLF+ IT New Governance Leadership Forum, Anxin Securities CIO Xu Yabin shares her 20‑year journey, the company’s pandemic response, digital transformation achievements, DevOps maturity, and ambitious plans for 2021, highlighting the role of IT leadership in finance.
This article demonstrates how to create and run an Ansible Playbook that changes hostnames and appends entries to /etc/hosts on two Linux servers, showing the required inventory, YAML playbook, command execution, and verification steps with accompanying screenshots.
Learn how to automate SSH logins on macOS using iTerm2's Trigger feature, create reusable Expect scripts, and enable fast file transfers with Zmodem, covering detailed configuration steps, regex tuning, and solutions to common pitfalls for seamless remote server access.
This article examines the concepts of design thinking, lean, agile, and DevOps, explains their shared user‑centric goals, and proposes a combined, value‑driven framework that maps, analyzes, and automates the end‑to‑end delivery process through integrated platforms and tooling.
This article explores a wide range of alternative roles for programmers—from developer relations and product management to data science and freelancing—offering practical advice on how existing software development skills can be leveraged for new, rewarding career opportunities.
This article explains what cloud‑native DevOps is, contrasts it with traditional DevOps using real‑world analogies, outlines its core principles, foundations and capabilities, and presents a detailed Alibaba case study that walks through architecture upgrades, IaC/GitOps, resource BaaS, and a five‑stage migration roadmap.
In an exclusive interview at the 2020 GOLF+ IT Governance Forum, the Deputy General Manager of China Agricultural Bank’s R&D Center explains how the bank’s DevOps initiative since 2019 has accelerated digital transformation, improved delivery speed, tackled pandemic‑era challenges, and set ambitious plans for 2021.
This guide explains how to version‑control Hugo blog posts on GitHub, set up a GitHub Actions workflow that builds and publishes the static site, and mirror the generated pages to Gitee for faster access, covering branch strategy, CI/CD steps, and required code snippets.
In this interview, Tencent Classroom’s front‑end lead Jay shares how his team built a systematic front‑end engineering efficiency framework, covering the evolution from basic build tools to full‑stack CI/CD, AI‑driven automation, and practical advice for new developers.
This article details Ant Group's two‑year journey of adopting Service Mesh at massive scale, explaining why Service Mesh is needed for microservice governance, heterogeneous system unification, and financial‑grade security, and describing the architecture, migration strategies, stability mechanisms, operational results, and future directions toward a full mesh and serverless era.
This guide walks through installing Gogs, creating a start‑up script, configuring a systemd service, launching the server, checking its status, creating repositories via the web UI or command line, and pushing code with saved credentials, all on a Linux host.
This guide explains how to address three frequent SonarQube challenges—unstable data across branches, difficulty assigning custom rule sets to new projects, and project permission management—by creating per‑branch projects, using REST APIs for quality profiles, and applying permission templates via Jenkins integration.
This tutorial walks you through setting up Jenkins with Docker, exploring built‑in and custom pipeline environment variables, overriding rules, Boolean handling, and capturing shell command output, providing practical code examples for each step.
The 2020 GOLF+ IT New Governance Leadership Forum in Beijing highlighted industry best practices, honored ICBC senior manager Qian Xianglong as the financial sector leader, and featured an in‑depth interview where he discussed his career, 2020 DevOps achievements, and ambitious 2021 plans for standardization, tooling, and security.
This guide walks through Docker’s workflow—image building with Dockerfiles, container startup, and service orchestration with docker‑compose—providing step‑by‑step examples for creating nginx, PHP, Tomcat, Jenkins, and a full LNMP stack, plus essential commands and configuration tips.
This article provides an in‑depth comparison of Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, examining their histories, core features, plugin ecosystems, scalability, community support, advantages, disadvantages, and selection criteria to help DevOps engineers choose the most suitable continuous integration and delivery platform for their projects.
The 2020 review highlights major DevOps standard advancements in China, a comprehensive national DevOps survey with over 1,800 responses, detailed maturity assessments across numerous enterprises, and the progress of the enterprise‑level DevOps empowerment program, illustrating the rapid evolution of DevOps practices and security integration.
This article explains four concrete distinctions between Jenkins scripted and declarative pipelines—code validation at start, restarting from a specific stage, options handling, and conditional stage execution—illustrated with side‑by‑side code examples and screenshots of their behavior.
This guide explains why Docker containers improve security, then details three fundamental steps—running images as non‑root users, using a private registry, and keeping images minimal—plus practical commands, multi‑stage builds, and Docker Content Trust to protect your containerized applications from attacks.
This article demonstrates how to centralize microservice deployment with Jenkins by leveraging GitLab integration and the parallel syntax to run tasks and stages concurrently, speeding up releases and reducing manual effort.
This guide explains how to automate the creation of Jenkins pipeline jobs by generating Job DSL templates, converting them to XML via an online playground, and applying the Jenkins Core API or Script Console to create or update jobs programmatically.
This tutorial shows how to set up Docker‑in‑Docker for a Jenkins master, resolve permission issues, and create CI/CD pipelines where each stage runs in its own Docker container using Maven and Node images.
This guide explains how to use GitLab CI to automatically build, push, and run Docker images for a Spring Boot application, covering Dockerfile creation, Java version considerations, environment variable management, and deployment steps across development, testing, and production environments.
This article introduces a curated set of Kubernetes tools covering cluster deployment, monitoring, command‑line utilities, and development aids, explaining each tool's purpose, key features, and typical use cases for modern cloud‑native operations.
This article reviews seven popular static code analysis tools, outlining why static analysis matters, each tool's key features, drawbacks, supported languages, and pricing to help developers choose the right solution for improving code quality and security.
Discover five emerging open-source Kubernetes projects—including Quarkus, OpenTelemetry, Argo CD, Envoy/Contour, and OKD 4—that are driving cloud-native innovation in 2021 by enhancing Java workloads, observability, GitOps, traffic management, and developer tooling, and simplifying deployment pipelines.
This article explains what DevOps is, outlines its key benefits such as faster feedback loops, higher quality and reduced costs, compares it with traditional IT operations, and provides practical guidance on mindset shifts, infrastructure as code, automation, and tool selection for successful adoption.
The author reflects on 2020, detailing DevOps achievements such as automated Jenkins pipelines, Artifactory migration, Python integrations, and Git standards, while outlining personal 2021 goals to improve English speaking, deepen technical learning, and maintain work‑life balance.
The Tencent IMWeb team’s 2020 analysis highlights seven key frontend trends—explosive TypeScript adoption, React’s dominance among major frameworks, the rise of WebAssembly, accelerating low‑code platforms, serverless full‑stack development, DevOps maturation, and booming WebRTC—while forecasting continued growth in these areas for 2021.
The PODE (Product + OKR + DevOps + Empower) framework, created by China Unicom’s Operations and Scheduling Center, restructures product teams, aligns objectives with measurable results, adopts DevOps practices, and empowers staff, dramatically improving collaboration, efficiency, and product quality across distributed teams.
This article recounts a two‑year journey of migrating from Ansible‑managed EC2 deployments to Kubernetes, detailing the motivations, migration strategy, operational challenges, tooling choices, resource management, security, cost considerations, and the development of custom controllers and CRDs to run production workloads reliably.
This article explores the author's personal interpretation of values, beliefs, and principles within Erikson coaching, relates them to the Cynefin decision‑making framework, and examines how these concepts align with the International DevOps Coach Federation's (IDCF) DevOps values and principles.
Zhejiang Mobile’s OSS 4.0 Capability Center passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing a six‑month transformation that reduced delivery cycles to one week, cut release time to three minutes, and boosted build efficiency by 96.7% through a unified, cloud‑native DevOps pipeline.
The article explains how DevSecOps extends DevOps by embedding security controls throughout the software lifecycle, outlines its key components, adoption steps, essential tools, implementation capabilities, and the business benefits of merging security with development and operations.
This tutorial walks you through downloading Jenkins, setting up JDK 1.8, installing and configuring Supervisord, creating the Jenkins directory, configuring supervisord to manage Jenkins, retrieving the initial admin password, and completing the web UI setup, all with clear command examples and screenshots.
This tutorial explains how to configure Jenkins multibranch pipelines to automatically discover Git branches and pull‑requests, run conditional stages such as unit tests and code analysis, set up the required Jenkinsfile, configure GitHub webhooks, and troubleshoot common issues, providing a complete CI/CD workflow for developers.
This article outlines a practical four‑step roadmap for banks to achieve scalable agile transformation, emphasizing a zero‑based mindset, business‑first approach, thin‑slice implementation, expansion, and impact anchoring, while detailing timelines, organizational capabilities, and the role of agile centers.
This tutorial walks you through installing JumpServer—a bastion host for centralized server management—by setting up MariaDB and Redis on separate nodes, configuring Docker, pulling the JumpServer image, generating required secret keys, and finally configuring users, groups, assets and session replay through the web UI.
This tutorial introduces DevOps pipelines, explains why they matter, and walks readers through a five‑step process—setting up CI/CD tools, integrating source control, automating builds, deploying to web servers, and adding test coverage—while highlighting open‑source tools like Jenkins, Git, Maven, Tomcat, Docker, and Kubernetes.
The article outlines essential DevOps metrics—such as deployment frequency, deployment time, automated test pass rate, code commit volume, defect escape rate, cost, failure rates, detection time, unplanned work, MTTF, application performance, MTTD, MTTR, delivery time, change quality, and customer feedback—to help teams monitor and improve software delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
This article explains how to install and use the Arthas Java diagnostic tool to perform hot‑code updates in the dble middleware, covering environment preparation, decompiling classes, modifying source, recompiling with memory‑compile, and applying the changes via both interactive and non‑interactive commands.
GitOps is an automation-driven approach that applies DevOps best practices such as version control, code review, and CI/CD pipelines to infrastructure management, enabling declarative configuration, pull‑request‑based changes, and automated deployment pipelines for Kubernetes and other cloud‑native environments.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservice architecture, covering its definition, history, differences from monolithic development, core characteristics, comparison with SOA, practical implementation steps, communication methods, design patterns, advantages, challenges, and recommended reading resources.
The article reports how Zhongbang Bank’s Internet Financial Service Platform achieved a third‑level continuous delivery rating in the national DevOps maturity assessment, detailing the standards, interview insights, architectural choices, and measurable improvements in delivery speed, quality, and operational efficiency.
Anxin Securities’ user‑center project passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing how standardized processes, tool empowerment, and agile transformation boosted software delivery efficiency and positioned the firm at the forefront of domestic DevOps maturity.
The article details Zhengzhou Bank’s successful completion of the second‑level DevOps technical‑operation assessment for its core banking system, describing the evaluation process, the standards applied, the architectural features of the system, and the tangible benefits and future plans for continuous improvement.
At the 2020 GOLF+ IT New Governance Leadership Forum, Zhongyuan Bank announced that its Cloud Payment Platform and Enterprise Mobile Banking projects passed the third‑level DevOps Continuous Delivery assessment, showcasing domestic leading maturity, improved delivery efficiency, and a roadmap toward DevSecOps and cloud‑native practices.
This guide explains what an Ansible playbook is, its YAML syntax, how to write tasks, use inventory limits, manage variables through extra‑vars, vars files, host/group vars, custom facts, control flow with when/changed_when/failed_when, delegate tasks, prompt users, apply tags, and handle errors with blocks and rescue/always sections.
Huatai Securities' data science development platform passed the DevSecOps security and risk management assessment at level 2, showcasing advanced domestic security practices, and the interview reveals the cultural, procedural, and technical steps that enabled this achievement and future improvement plans.
The 2020 GOLF+ IT New Governance Leadership Forum in Beijing showcased Ping An Bank's Smart Due Diligence System passing the first DevSecOps security and risk management assessment, highlighting the role of the Starlink platform in integrating DevOps practices, enhancing security, and driving industry‑wide IT governance improvements.
The article details how Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s mobile banking project passed the DevSecOps security and risk‑management assessment, outlining the standards, implementation steps, challenges faced, and the benefits gained for both the organization and the broader financial industry.
The article explains scriptless (no‑code) testing, how it records and replays user interactions, compares it with script‑based testing, outlines its advantages, and shows how teams can leverage it to improve software quality and delivery speed within DevOps environments.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide to GitLab CI/CD, covering pipeline concepts, a sample .gitlab-ci.yml configuration, job and stage definitions, runner installation and registration, and secure SSH‑based deployment using Docker‑based runners.
The 2020 front‑end landscape shifted from simple page rendering to full‑stack product development, highlighting seven major trends such as the explosive growth of TypeScript, the dominance of React, the emergence of WebAssembly, the rapid adoption of low‑code platforms, deeper serverless integration, DevOps maturation, and the expanding role of WebRTC, all of which reshaped how developers deliver business value.
This article examines why teams moving from waterfall to agile need automated regression testing, compares building a custom Selenium framework with adopting a no‑code solution, and outlines the practical considerations of cost, maintenance, integration, reporting, and team skill development.
In a November 2020 CNBPS roundtable, senior architects from China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom shared their cloud‑native journeys, detailing platform builds, migration standards, common challenges, practical pitfalls and a forward‑looking roadmap for telecom‑wide digital transformation.
This article describes how Ctrip's flight front‑end team adopted GitLab Flow and the Light Merge branch strategy—detailing the evolution from single‑branch to multi‑branch approaches, the mechanics and advantages of Light Merge, and the automation of CI/CD, code review, and branch lifecycle management to achieve fast, reliable releases.
This article explains GitLab CI/CD fundamentals, how continuous integration, delivery, and deployment work, shows how to configure .gitlab-ci.yml files, set up runners, visualize pipelines, and leverage Auto DevOps for automated build‑test‑deploy cycles.
This article explains how 5G expands communication beyond people to devices, outlines its three core scenarios, and argues that DevOps and agile practices are essential for overcoming the technical and operational challenges of deploying 5G networks.
This guide outlines critical precautions, preparation steps, and safe usage patterns for risky Linux commands such as rm, chmod, dd, and MySQL operations, emphasizing deep breathing, verification, backups, and proper scripting to prevent catastrophic data loss in production environments.
This article describes a company's practical implementation of agile testing within a DevOps transformation, detailing each sprint phase, the adoption of Cypress for automated testing, and concluding with reflections on continuous quality improvement and a recruitment invitation for experienced DevOps professionals.
The article explains how adopting DevOps practices streamlines software development, accelerates bug fixing, enhances collaboration, and integrates security throughout the lifecycle, ultimately delivering faster, safer, and higher‑quality applications.
Explore a curated collection of cutting‑edge frontend knowledge—including a zero‑cost micro‑frontend framework, reasons to drop CSS @apply, canvas‑based electronic signatures with PDF output, large‑scale SSR strategies, Chrome 87 enhancements, ECMAScript 2021 features, XSS defenses, automated SVG icon delivery, ESLint best practices, JavaScript metaprogramming, node_modules pitfalls, Monorepo management, and Rax mini‑program runtime insights.
This article recounts Grofers' two‑year journey migrating from Ansible‑managed EC2 instances to Kubernetes, detailing the motivations, migration strategy, operational challenges, observability choices, CI/CD tooling, resource management, security practices, cost considerations, and the overall impact on development velocity and platform stability.
This article explains how Alibaba’s Serverless Cloud Development Platform, built on Function Compute, enables thousands of engineers to develop, deliver, and operate large‑scale applications faster and more reliably by providing integrated solutions, customizable capabilities, and comprehensive stability and operations tools.
This article explains the recent Docker command restructuring, introduces the Management Command and sub‑command syntax, and provides detailed instructions for enabling powerful tab‑completion on macOS using Bash or Zsh, complete with code snippets and screenshots.
This tutorial walks through installing Alertmanager on a Kubernetes node, configuring its SMTP settings, integrating it with Prometheus for alerting, defining alert rules, and verifying that email notifications are correctly sent when a monitored node fails.
The article explains that automation testing is a strategic, systematic practice that goes beyond mere tools, requiring integration with continuous delivery pipelines, DevOps skills, thoughtful tool selection, cultural support, and cost‑benefit analysis to achieve reliable, fast quality feedback.
This guide explains how to use Jenkins pipeline shared libraries to create a flexible DingTalk robot notifier, covering message types, template design, Groovy implementation, and integration into pipeline post‑steps for automated build alerts.
This article explains how to integrate JUnit unit testing into Jenkins pipelines using Maven and Spring Boot, covering project setup, dependency configuration, test case creation, Jenkins job configuration, and result reporting to achieve fully automated testing in a DevOps workflow.
The article chronicles a YouZan DevOps engineer’s five‑year evolution from Alibaba‑based middleware duties to business‑operation leadership, highlighting the relentless pursuit of system stability through the 1‑minute detection, 5‑minute localization, 10‑minute resolution mantra, complex multi‑datacenter integrations, continuous learning, and a mindset of proactive problem‑solving.
This guide walks through installing Subversion on a Docker host, configuring repository access and authentication, testing basic SVN operations, and integrating the SVN server with Jenkins to automate file distribution and builds, providing step‑by‑step commands and screenshots.
This guide walks through preparing a Kubernetes cluster, configuring Istio with Helm, defining JHipster microservices via JDL, generating code and deployment manifests, building Docker images, and exposing monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, and Kiali for a complete cloud‑native service‑mesh deployment.
Facing rapid growth in 2019, Yanxuan partnered with NetEase Qingzhou to co‑build a cloud‑native platform, detailing a multi‑stage migration that standardized services, reduced code changes, enhanced high‑availability, optimized performance, and improved observability, ultimately supporting over 300 cloud‑migrated services and boosting development efficiency by more than 200%.
Beginning in 2019, NetEase Yanxuan launched a joint cloud‑native platform with NetEase Qingzhou, standardizing immutable infrastructure, containerizing services, and adopting DevOps; the migration unfolded across four phases—foundation, framework, pipeline, and rooms—while emphasizing high‑availability, performance tuning, observability, and team empowerment, with ongoing regression‑environment expansion and hiring to support future high‑traffic demands.
This tutorial explains how Jenkins can be used to run simple shell commands such as retrieving host information and how to automate bulk host‑key distribution with a custom script, illustrating the CI platform’s integration with version control and its ability to execute OS‑level operations.
Docker emerged to address the challenges of disparate development, testing, and production environments by leveraging Linux kernel features like namespaces and cgroups, offering lightweight, fast-starting containers that isolate applications without the overhead of traditional virtual machines, and providing versatile use cases from cloud hosting to CI/CD pipelines.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step tutorial for installing, configuring, and running Jenkins on a Linux server, covering environment preparation, Java installation, Jenkins deployment, initial password retrieval, plugin sources, and basic configuration.
This article examines Kubernetes' core advantages, ideal use‑cases, limitations, cost considerations, and provides guidance on when adopting it makes sense for startups and self‑sufficient teams versus opting for simpler alternatives.
This article provides a concise reference of essential Docker command‑line operations, including searching, pulling, listing, running, inspecting, managing containers and images, and additional utilities, helping developers, testers, and operations engineers efficiently work with Docker without a graphical interface.
This article explains how Alibaba's Serverless cloud development platform, built on Function Compute, enables front‑end and back‑end engineers to develop, deploy, and operate large‑scale applications with higher efficiency, lower cost, and improved reliability across multiple business scenarios.
