This article explains what OpenShift and Kubernetes are, compares their features—including architecture, rollout, web UI, image registry, CI/CD integration, and networking—and helps readers decide which container platform best fits their infrastructure and development needs.
This article provides a comprehensive walkthrough of Jenkins' declarative pipeline syntax, covering required sections, optional directives, practical code examples, parallel execution, input handling, post actions, and tips for effective CI/CD pipeline creation.
This article explains DevOps by describing how to create balanced workflows, reduce batch sizes to speed feedback, adopt trunk‑based development with continuous integration and delivery, and continuously identify and remove constraints such as long‑lived feature branches and slow environment provisioning.
This guide presents six practical kubectl commands—including get, events, logs, yaml output, scaling, and port‑forwarding—that help you quickly diagnose and resolve common deployment and pod issues in Kubernetes clusters.
This article surveys ten newly released Kubernetes‑related platforms and tools—from Docker Enterprise 3.1 to KubeCarrier—highlighting their key features, cloud‑native capabilities, and the impact they are expected to have on enterprise IT environments.
This article describes how HaoDF built an automated, visual CI/CD pipeline for its WeChat mini programs, replacing manual testing and release steps with a platform that handles environment configuration, QR‑code generation, code merging, and deployment while improving efficiency, reducing errors, and supporting future scaling.
This article explains the origins, core principles, and practical components of Cloud Native—including microservices, containerization, DevOps, continuous delivery, and cloud infrastructure—showing how they reshape development culture, organization, and technology adoption for modern software teams.
This article explains Google DevOps’s four capability categories, dives into DORA‑backed best practices for database change management—including communication, migration scripts, tooling, zero‑downtime strategies, common pitfalls, and key metrics—to help teams deliver changes safely and quickly.
This guide walks through deploying an Nginx sample app on Kubernetes, exposing Prometheus‑collected custom metrics, configuring a Prometheus adapter, and creating a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler that scales the deployment based on request‑per‑second metrics.
Sampler is a lightweight tool that runs shell commands, visualizes their output, and can trigger alerts; configured via simple YAML, it works on macOS, Linux and Windows, supports various components such as runcharts, sparklines, gauges, and interactive shells for monitoring databases, queues and system metrics.
This article explains Google DevOps' four capability categories, focuses on test data management for automated testing, outlines core principles, common pitfalls, improvement techniques, and metrics to measure effectiveness, helping teams build reliable, scalable CI pipelines.
This guide explains Google’s DevOps solution built on DORA research, outlines the four DevOps capability categories, and provides detailed steps, best practices, common pitfalls, improvement methods, and measurement techniques for implementing reliable, automated software deployments.
Meituan Waimai’s mobile architecture progressed from early componentization through platformization and a custom React‑Native hybrid to a containerized system that unifies Android and iOS via SDKs, MRN and Titans containers, enabling dynamic updates, modular development, and massive traffic handling while demanding enhanced monitoring and release governance.
DataOps, an Agile‑derived methodology that extends DevOps principles to data analytics, emphasizes automation, collaboration, and continuous delivery to accelerate and improve data processing, quality, and business insight, while outlining its benefits, relationship to Agile/DevOps, and practical steps for adoption.
This article introduces a tutorial video that demonstrates how to install and run Jenkins, the open‑source CI/CD platform, inside an Apache Tomcat servlet container on a Windows operating system, and provides links to related cloud‑native community resources and further Jenkins learning materials.
This article explains how Nexus Repository can serve as a centralized Docker and Helm registry for Kubernetes deployments, detailing repository types, configuration steps, and practical code examples for creating, securing, and testing a private container image registry.
This article explains how Docker addresses environment‑configuration challenges, compares container technology with virtual machines, and outlines Docker’s advantages such as fast startup, low resource usage, image layering, isolation, rapid rollback, and lower deployment and management costs, while also discussing its remaining limitations.
An in‑depth interview with Zhejiang Mobile’s IT deputy general manager reveals how their Bee Cloud DevOps platform achieved excellent ratings in the national DevOps system‑and‑tool assessment, boosting automation, delivery speed, and overall operational efficiency.
This article details Saike Mobility's successful Level‑3 DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, shares insights from an interview with their operations director, and explains the national DevOps capability maturity model that is shaping engineering efficiency across Chinese tech enterprises.
The 2020 GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shenzhen showcased a series of high‑impact DevOps talks, standards releases, enterprise assessments, and collaborative initiatives that highlighted the evolving landscape of cloud, data, and operational excellence across leading Chinese tech organizations.
This article reports on Tencent’s Gongfeng version‑control system receiving top‑level DevOps standard assessment at the 14th GOPS Global Operations Conference, includes an interview with the system’s director about its design, deployment challenges, future plans, and the broader Chinese DevOps standards initiative.
This guide presents nine practical methods to accelerate GitHub access—including mirror sites, Cloudflare Workers proxies, raw file CDN replacements, JsDelivr usage, Gitee fork transfers, and manual hosts file edits—complete with URLs, step‑by‑step instructions, and illustrative screenshots.
China Telecom’s System Integration subsidiary’s ‘BiYi’ collaborative development platform recently passed the inaugural DevOps system and tool standards assessment by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, showcasing how standardized, end‑to‑end toolchains and continuous integration pipelines can boost efficiency, quality, and industry leadership in large‑scale IT operations.
The article recounts Zhongyuan Bank’s successful DevOps platform evaluation at the 14th GOPS Global Operations Conference, detailing the bank’s digital transformation, the platform’s architecture, and insights from a Q&A with senior technical leaders on standards, toolchains, and future DevOps directions.
Ping An Bank’s Starlink DevOps platform, recognized by China’s CAICT as a first‑batch certified system‑and‑tool solution, showcases how standardized toolchains, end‑to‑end value streams, and data‑driven metrics can dramatically boost development speed, quality, and operational efficiency in the financial sector.
This guide compiles multiple free methods—including mirror sites, Cloudflare Workers proxies, raw file CDNs, Chrome extensions, Gitee imports, and hosts file modifications—to dramatically speed up GitHub cloning, downloading releases, and accessing raw files for developers worldwide.
This guide explains the concepts of DevOps, SecOps, and DevSecOps, outlines their respective benefits, and helps organizations decide which security‑focused operational model best fits their needs by comparing their focus on integration, automation, and collaboration across development, operations, and security teams.
This article reviews common industry Git workflows such as Git Flow, GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow, Trunk‑based Flow and Aone Flow, analyzes Bytedance's multi‑environment deployment architecture, and presents concrete single‑, double‑ and triple‑branch practices together with recommendations for effective R&D process management.
This article explores how to classify, model, and store R&D efficiency metrics—distinguishing human‑oriented from process‑oriented measures, illustrating a meta‑model of value flow, advocating graph databases for flexible storage, and sharing expert insights for proactive risk control.
This article explains the components, tools, and stages of software delivery pipelines—including version control, continuous integration, continuous delivery, blue/green and canary deployments—while highlighting their automation benefits and offering resources for further learning.
This article explores how Nginx’s high‑performance, event‑driven architecture underpins modern DevOps practices, detailing its roles in web hosting, proxying, caching, API gateways, dynamic routing with Lua/Redis, emergency failover designs, data‑driven operations, and micro‑service integration.
This article analyzes Beike's massive real‑estate ecosystem, detailing the intricate business flows, technical architecture, and quality‑assurance challenges, and explains how a suite of internal platforms—KeTest, KeOnes, sosotest, KeDiff, KePTS, and KeMTC—are engineered to deliver high‑performance, highly available services at scale.
This article explains why fast, high‑quality delivery demands test automation, defines what a test automation framework is, outlines its various types and benefits, and provides concise comparisons of popular frameworks such as Robot Framework, WebdriverIO, Citrus, Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Gauge, Carina and FunTester.
This article examines seven typical misconceptions in software development—from focusing on tasks instead of demand to favoring batch releases over continuous delivery—and offers practical guidance on improving flow efficiency, cross‑functional collaboration, code quality, and automated testing.
The article outlines twenty‑four key capabilities across continuous delivery, architecture, product and process, lean management, and culture that research shows drive superior software delivery performance and organizational outcomes.
This article introduces the micro‑frontend concept, outlines its characteristics and suitable scenarios, and provides a detailed Vue‑based implementation covering runtime, deployment, development modes, code snippets, reuse layers, and best‑practice recommendations for large‑scale front‑end projects.
GitHub CLI 1.0, now officially released, lets developers manage repositories, pull requests, and issues directly from the terminal with simple commands, offers cross‑platform installation options, and supports custom aliases and enterprise connections for faster, scriptable workflows.
This article explains Netflix's Spinnaker platform, detailing its microservice architecture, code repository management, GitHub Actions continuous integration workflow, versioned deployment configuration, and practical steps for deploying and rolling back Spinnaker in multi‑cloud environments.
This guide walks you through creating and using a one‑click installation package that sets up essential development services—MySQL, Nginx, JDK, Redis, RabbitMQ, and a SpringBoot jar—on Ubuntu 16.x, detailing directory structure, required prerequisites, individual start/stop scripts, and customization options for small‑scale deployments.
Noah is a test environment governance platform that uses infrastructure‑as‑code principles, resource pooling, soft routing, and containerization to automate the creation, management, and teardown of complex testing environments, dramatically improving developer productivity and reducing operational costs.
This guide explains how to configure a Docker‑in‑Docker GitLab Runner to pull images from a private container registry by setting the DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG variable, covering both job‑level and runner‑level methods, credential generation, and example runner registration commands.
This article explores how YAML files serve as the pivotal interface for managing Kubernetes resources, detailing their role in defining storage, compute, network, and application configurations, and demonstrating practical deployment, service, and ingress creation to streamline operations and enhance platform stability.
Discover a curated list of ten essential books covering Site Reliability Engineering, performance tuning, AI‑ops, security, DevOps practices, Jenkins pipelines, and the evolution of modern operations, each offering practical insights and real‑world examples to elevate your technical expertise.
The September 7, 2020 technical salon hosted by Qunar's infrastructure R&D team, in collaboration with Keep, gathered over 20 engineering experts to discuss DevOps continuous delivery, test environment management platforms such as Noah, Portal, MPortal, and Thanos, and share practical experiences and architectural choices.
The article explains what cloud‑native applications are, contrasts them with traditional software, outlines four core cloud‑native development principles, and details a six‑step process—including DevOps culture, lightweight servers, PaaS, framework selection, automation, and modular architecture—to accelerate building and deploying cloud‑native solutions.
This article outlines the typical challenges faced during a DevOps transformation—such as resistance to change, rushed feature delivery, technical debt, team structure, skill gaps, automation, environment provisioning, and cross‑team collaboration—and explains the practical solutions VMware applied to achieve faster, higher‑quality releases.
This article examines ten common Kubernetes deployment anti‑patterns—from embedding configuration inside Docker images to using the latest tag in production—and offers practical recommendations such as externalizing configs with ConfigMaps, employing Helm or Kustomize, setting resource limits, and implementing proper monitoring and rollout strategies.
The article outlines how open x86 hardware, solid‑state storage, high‑speed networking, resource pools and containers form the foundation for modern IT architecture, while national emphasis on innovation and security elevates open‑source software, driving a shift toward layered, service‑oriented, microservice‑centric systems integrated with DevOps pipelines.
Discover a comprehensive overview of common programming positions—from full‑stack software engineers to data scientists, DevOps, and specialized domain experts—highlighting ideal personality traits, responsibilities, and how aligning your interests and strengths with these roles can lead to a fulfilling tech career.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step guide to setting up GitLab CI/CD pipelines, configuring .gitlab-ci.yml files, registering Docker‑based GitLab Runners, and deploying applications via SSH, covering stages, jobs, and practical code examples for DevOps practitioners.
This article explains how to use Git and Huawei Cloud DevCloud to implement development, test, and production branch strategies, manage permissions with protected branches, handle merge conflicts, and leverage merge requests and code reviews to improve DevOps efficiency.
iQIYI’s Test Environment Management Platform centralizes topology and deployment scripts, automates on‑demand environment provisioning, and isolates QA resources, cutting deployment time from up to 60 minutes to an average of four minutes, boosting success rates above 95 % while supporting thousands of daily deployments across hundreds of applications.
The team introduced an Angular‑style Git commit‑message standard—type(scope): subject in Chinese—and built a webhook‑based monitoring service that validates pushes, alerts violations, tracks diff size and deletions, stores metrics, and visualizes compliance, improving traceability, readability, and automated changelog generation.
Grafana’s new Redis Data Source plugin lets DevOps engineers and DBAs seamlessly connect to Redis instances—whether open‑source, Enterprise, or Cloud—visualize time‑series and core data types, run management commands, and build interactive dashboards using Grafana’s transformations and built‑in panels.
This article presents a practical, multi‑stage approach for improving software reliability in Kubernetes‑based microservice environments, covering static analysis, testing pyramids, CI/CD observability, performance testing, deployment strategies, and feedback loops to help engineering teams deliver faster, higher‑quality releases.
This article explains the evolution of DevOps, the challenges of building a Kubernetes‑based DevOps platform, and how the Open Application Model (OAM) provides a layered, component‑and‑trait architecture that separates concerns, enhances extensibility, and enables next‑generation cloud‑native DevOps solutions.
This article explains why small Docker images matter, demonstrates the traditional Dockerfile approach, introduces the Builder Pattern with its drawbacks, and then shows how Docker's multi‑stage build feature can produce equally small images with far less complexity, complete with code examples.
This article outlines a practical four‑step process—Define, Scope, Experiment, Analyze—to help DevOps engineers prioritize automation tasks, assess pain points, and align improvements with business value, offering actionable guidance for effective pipeline and workflow optimization.
Lyft open‑sourced Clutch, a scalable UI and API platform that unifies infrastructure tooling with built‑in security, authorization, and observability, offering a single binary Go backend and plug‑in React frontend to simplify operations, reduce MTTR, and improve developer experience across large cloud‑native environments.
This article details a month‑long DevOps case study conducted by the IDCF team on traditional banking, describing the four guiding principles, the six‑stage workflow from team formation to retrospection, the research findings across major Chinese banks, and the resulting best‑case award and future digital‑transformation discussions.
This guide walks you through creating a Tencent Cloud Elasticsearch cluster, configuring secure write‑only Beats roles, initializing Beats with setup commands, deploying Beats via a scripted workflow, and troubleshooting common issues to achieve reliable, scalable production monitoring.
The SRE Foundation course presented at the GOPS 2020 Global Operations Conference in Shenzhen introduces core Site Reliability Engineering principles, practical tools, and certification preparation through eight detailed modules, targeting a wide range of IT professionals and business stakeholders.
This guide explains how to migrate Docker images, containers, and volumes in offline or constrained environments using save/load, export/import, and backup/restore commands, providing step‑by‑step examples and best‑practice recommendations for reliable operations.
The article outlines ten frequent pitfalls that organizations encounter when adopting DevOps—such as out‑of‑order delivery, misunderstandings of DevOps roles, lack of flexibility, speed over quality, isolated teams, unautomated databases, insufficient incident handling, limited expertise, security neglect, and team fatigue—and provides practical guidance to prevent these errors for more successful DevOps outcomes.
This article introduces the Jenkins Deploy Dashboard plugin, explains how it visualizes deployment versions across environments, and provides step‑by‑step instructions with code examples for adding deployments, creating dashboard views, and adding deployment buttons to streamline CI/CD workflows.
The article explains the approval of ITU‑T Y.3525, the first international DevOps standard led by China, outlines its framework and use cases, and describes the accompanying DevOps Capability Maturity Model, assessment process, benefits, and participating organizations.
This article introduces China’s inaugural DevOps Capability Maturity Model, outlines its eight-part structure—including system and tool requirements—describes the standardized evaluation methodology, registration details, and provides contact information for organizations seeking certification.
This article explains what technical debt is, why it accumulates in both development and operations, and outlines four DevOps‑driven strategies—including building cross‑functional teams, automation, containerization, and API‑centric design—to identify, track, and repay technical debt while improving cloud migration outcomes.
This article explains the concept of end‑state‑oriented monitoring, its significance for modern operations, the shortcomings of existing solutions, and a layered design approach that leverages real‑time data, service catalogs, and AI to achieve secure, stable, efficient, and low‑cost operations.
This article explains how Kubernetes Service and Ingress resources work as layer‑4 and layer‑7 schedulers, covering Service types, kube‑proxy modes, YAML definitions, and TLS‑enabled Ingress configuration with practical command‑line examples.
The article analyzes the 2012 Knight Capital Group disaster, showing how a manual deployment error, lingering legacy code, missing kill‑switch, and inadequate monitoring caused a $4.6 billion loss within 45 minutes, and extracts key DevOps best‑practice lessons to prevent similar failures.
The Continuous Delivery Architect (CDA) course teaches DevOps pipeline design, implementation, and management, covering continuous integration, delivery, testing, deployment, monitoring, security, and the cultural practices needed to boost speed, reduce risk, and earn a certification.
This article explains how cloud‑native principles—combining agile, DevOps, CI/CD, microservices, service governance, container technology, and cloud computing—address modern application challenges such as rapid deployment, elastic scaling, fault detection, self‑healing, and alignment with organizational structures.
This article provides a comprehensive introduction to Docker, covering its underlying technology, reasons for adoption, step‑by‑step installation on CentOS, essential image and container commands, detailed Dockerfile instructions, and practical examples for building and running a Spring Boot application.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of GitLab CI/CD, explaining continuous integration, delivery, and deployment concepts, detailing the .gitlab-ci.yml configuration, pipeline workflow, runner setup, Auto DevOps features, and includes practical code examples for building, testing, and deploying applications.
The article explains how integrating DevOps toolchains can achieve enterprise‑scale end‑to‑end communication and collaboration without forcing teams to change their workflows, discusses common bottlenecks, presents unified versus loosely‑coupled integration approaches, and offers practical recommendations for building an inclusive, interconnected DevOps ecosystem.
This article reviews ten well‑known enterprises—including Adidas, Capital One, Verizon, Disney, and Starbucks—that have undertaken large‑scale DevOps and cloud‑native transformations, detailing the challenges they faced, the cultural and technical changes implemented, and the measurable business benefits achieved.
This guide explains how to create identical repositories on GitHub and Gitee, clone them locally, replace the default remote, add both remotes, and push code to each, while also covering common authentication and push‑rejection issues.
This article details the Agricultural Bank of China's multi‑phase journey to build a broad, end‑to‑end continuous delivery pipeline—covering requirement gathering, architecture design, planning, coding, testing, deployment, and operations—using Microsoft TFS, agile practices, and DevOps metrics to achieve mature, bank‑wide toolchain integration.
This guide explains how to set up Gerrit in Docker, configure SSH keys and user groups, install the Gerrit Trigger plugin in Jenkins, and create a Jenkinsfile so that a successful code review automatically triggers a Jenkins pipeline, providing a streamlined DevOps workflow.
Discover a curated list of powerful open-source Kubernetes management solutions—including K9s, Rancher, Dashboard, Kubectl, Kubeadm, Helm, KubeSpray, Kontena Lens, and WKSctl—detailing their core features, deployment options, and how they streamline cluster monitoring, configuration, and application lifecycle across cloud-native environments.
This article outlines a seven‑step DevOps transformation roadmap, explaining how companies can select value streams, build cross‑functional teams, map processes, adopt best practices, leverage tooling, and scale the change while managing cultural and organizational challenges.
This guide walks through installing and configuring a Ceph distributed storage cluster, covering node preparation, hostname and hosts setup, password‑less SSH, required packages, firewall handling, time sync, ceph‑deploy installation, monitor creation, OSD configuration, pool and RBD creation, verification, and common troubleshooting steps.
This guide walks through installing Tekton on a Kubernetes cluster, explains its core CRD resources such as Task, TaskRun, Pipeline and PipelineResource, and demonstrates a complete example that clones a Go repository, runs tests, builds a Docker image, and pushes it to Docker Hub.
This article surveys fifteen leading open‑source API management platforms—such as API Umbrella, Gravitee.io, Kong Enterprise, and 3Scale—detailing their key features like rate limiting, authentication, analytics, and developer portals, to help backend teams choose the right solution for their microservice architectures.
This article explains what regression testing is, why it is critical in fast‑paced agile and DevOps workflows, and provides practical strategies, best‑practice recommendations, and checklist items for building and maintaining effective regression test suites.
This comprehensive guide introduces Ansible, covering its core concepts, features, installation, inventory setup, ad‑hoc commands, module usage, playbook creation, handlers, and role-based organization to enable efficient, agent‑less automation across diverse Linux and network environments.
This article presents a collection of practical PostgreSQL DBA techniques—including selective updates, bulk‑load optimizations, CTE‑based deduplication, partial and BRIN indexes, correlation tuning, and transactional DDL tricks—to help developers reduce database bottlenecks, improve query speed, and avoid common performance pitfalls.
The article uses a thought experiment of a computer left idle for a year to illustrate how software architecture must evolve from static diagrams to operationalized, continuously delivered microservices, emphasizing the importance of DevOps, feature toggles, and real‑world resilience.
This article explains how to secure Jenkins by installing the Role-based Authorization Strategy plugin, defining global, item, and node roles, assigning users to those roles, handling common issues, and automating permission management with a Groovy pipeline script.
This article analyzes why DevOps adoption often fails, explores the Agile Flow Model with its four fluency intervals, outlines the necessary organizational investments and challenges for each stage, and presents real‑world DevOps toolchain case studies to guide effective implementation.
This article explains why Jenkins credentials should be used, describes the supported credential types, shows how Jenkins stores and encrypts credentials, demonstrates decryption methods, and provides step‑by‑step examples of using credentials in pipeline scripts to securely interact with third‑party services.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) streamlines DevOps by automating provisioning, ensuring reproducible and consistent environments, enabling version‑controlled configurations, and supporting fast feedback through testing, while the article outlines its core benefits, key principles, goals, and provides practical Ansible and Testinfra examples.
This article explains the evolution from traditional C/S to B/S architectures, compares DevOps and SRE principles, discusses their roles in the container and cloud eras, and showcases StarRing's TDC platform that integrates automated pipelines, monitoring, and deployment for efficient software delivery.
The article reflects on the impact of the TV show "Band's Summer" and then provides a detailed guide on selecting Agile and DevOps pilot projects, outlining four key factors, additional considerations, and the four characteristics of micro‑services to help organizations achieve successful transformation.
This guide explains how to use Google’s open‑source Kaniko tool to build container images directly inside a Kubernetes cluster without needing Docker daemon access, covering its workflow, required prerequisites, secret creation, job manifest, command‑line usage, and a brief comparison with similar tools.
This guide details how to enable Prometheus metrics on GitLab Runner, configure Prometheus to scrape those metrics, and set up the gitlab-ci-pipelines-exporter with Grafana dashboards to monitor both runner performance and CI/CD pipeline health.
The article explains how Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment form a standard software development pipeline, highlighting CI’s role in rapid bug detection, CD’s focus on production‑like testing, and deployment automation that keeps code always ready for release.
This guide explains how to configure Jenkins agent nodes through various methods—including Java Web Start, VM execution, Docker containers, Kubernetes deployments, and SSH—providing step‑by‑step instructions, required code snippets, and tips for successful integration into a CI/CD pipeline.
This guide explains how to automate the creation of Jenkins jobs using Hubot plugins, shell scripts, and a Python‑jenkins library, detailing required parameters, installation steps, example scripts, and a help command for users.
