This article explains how to use infrastructure‑as‑code techniques on Kubernetes to automate the deployment and CI/CD pipelines of .NET Core microservices, detailing the role of k8s.yaml files, Jenkinsfiles, and related automation tools.
This article recounts the journey of a Chinese fund company's infrastructure team as they transformed low‑efficiency manual operations into a standardized, automated DevOps workflow, detailing the challenges, decisions between self‑development and partnership, and future plans for security, CMDB, and PaaS evolution.
This guide explains GitLab CI/CD fundamentals, including continuous integration, delivery, deployment, .gitlab-ci.yml configuration, runner setup, pipeline stages, Auto DevOps, and Kubernetes deployment, with practical code examples and visual walkthroughs for automating software delivery.
The article analyses the 2020 Chinese DevOps survey, highlighting the current maturity of agile management, continuous delivery, technical operations, application design, and security, while sharing practical experiences, tool choices, and common challenges faced by enterprises during DevOps transformation.
This guide walks you through installing Elastic Workplace Search and Elastic Enterprise Search on a CentOS 8 VM using Vagrant, configuring data sources such as GitHub and Atlassian products, setting up user groups and weights, and verifying search results, all within a day.
This article explains the fundamentals of microservice architecture, contrasts it with traditional three‑layer monolithic designs, outlines its characteristics, benefits, drawbacks, and implementation challenges, and compares it to SOA, providing a comprehensive overview for developers and architects.
This article details the evolution of an online development platform—from early WebIDE experiments and code‑server integration to a cloud‑native architecture with client, server, and container pool components—highlighting challenges in resource scheduling, high availability, startup speed, and plugin ecosystems, and sharing practical solutions and scenario deployments.
Learn how to quickly diagnose and resolve common Kubernetes pod failures—such as ImagePullBackOff, CrashLoopBackOff, and resource issues—by using kubectl commands to inspect pod status, events, logs, and execute shells, with practical examples and step‑by‑step troubleshooting techniques.
This article describes how Fiberhome Communications built an end‑to‑end test management platform on Jira Software and the Atlassian suite, detailing the business pain points, core testing requirements, a custom solution architecture, and the resulting efficiency and cost‑saving benefits.
This article details how CTrip's flight app transitioned to React Native and adopted BDD-driven CI/CD, introducing parallel linting, unit testing, automated publishing, a mock data platform, distributed UI automation, and multi‑process frameworks to achieve 95% test coverage, minute‑level execution times, and significantly reduced release costs.
This comprehensive guide introduces Ansible's core concepts, architecture, and key features, then walks through installation, inventory configuration, command usage, module options, playbook creation, handlers, and role-based organization, providing practical examples and code snippets for effective automation across Linux and mixed environments.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Kubernetes, covering its definition, advantages, core features, typical use cases, architectural layout, essential control‑plane and node components, as well as common add‑on tools for monitoring and networking.
This article discusses common challenges encountered when using SonarQube at scale—including data instability across branches, rule configuration for new projects, and project permission management—and presents practical solutions such as branch-specific project naming, Jenkins-driven API automation, and recommendations for purchasing commercial editions.
This article explores the evolving role of IT operations, defining its core value, comparing traditional closed‑source and open‑source architectures, analyzing the shift toward automation, DevOps, cloud‑native and digitalization trends, and outlining essential skills and management practices for today’s ops professionals.
The Zhengda Hospital HIS database outage, caused by unauthorized scripts and poor permission controls, sparked a detailed discussion on how to prevent reckless production testing, enforce proper authorization, design efficient yet secure workflows, improve outsourcing oversight, and build robust emergency and compliance practices.
This article explains the concepts of Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD), their importance in Scrum and DevOps, criteria for ready and done backlog items, practical examples, and how to display them on the team board to ensure consistent delivery standards.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of DevOps concepts, including definitions of CI, CD, continuous deployment, version control, tooling, implementation steps, benefits, and distinctions from Agile and Lean IT, offering guidance for effective adoption and interview preparation.
This article summarizes a DevOps best‑practice talk, explaining how the VUCA environment and hidden "gray rhino" risks demand five critical success factors—goal alignment, people & culture, process, platform, and technology—and offers practical steps for enterprises to start and mature their DevOps journey.
In this interview, senior DBA Ge Haoqiang from Tiancheng Financial discusses the scale of their database clusters, the efficiency gains from automation, DevOps culture, language choices, and how they adapt to new database features, offering insights into modern database operations automation.
This guide presents practical Bash scripting techniques—including strict mode, file locking, graceful termination, timeout handling, and pipeline debugging—to help developers write more robust, maintainable, and error‑resilient shell scripts for automation and system tasks.
This article details how to replace VM‑based Jenkins slaves with dynamically provisioned Kubernetes pods, covering architecture design, Jenkins master configuration, pod template YAML, custom Docker images, pipeline scripts, and performance tuning to improve resource utilization and scaling.
This roundup covers Tencent Cloud's first domestic serverless PostgreSQL database, GitHub's free core features for all users, the nginx 1.17.10 release with a new auth_delay directive, a COBOL programmer's urgent call, and upcoming Linux dual‑boot on iPhone, among other tech headlines.
This article explains the evolution from manual deployment to container orchestration, compares Docker Compose, Mesos, and Kubernetes, outlines DevOps principles, and provides a detailed overview of Kubernetes origins, features, architecture, and core components.
This article explains why and how to replace Jenkins Freestyle projects with Pipeline jobs, covering the limitations of Freestyle, the benefits of Pipeline, and providing a complete scripted example that automates code checkout, building, testing, reporting, and email notification.
This article explains how value‑stream architects act as influencers, consultants, optimizers, and architects who visualize, influence, design, and train around software delivery pipelines, enabling organizations to accelerate business value flow and achieve continuous improvement in large‑scale DevOps environments.
This article compiles a series of frequent Jenkins pipeline problems—such as Git parameter handling, credential plaintext usage, Sonar scanning, JSON parsing, HTTP request handling, and build termination—and provides practical solutions, code snippets, and tips to help developers avoid pitfalls and streamline their CI/CD workflows.
This article examines Facebook's large‑scale configuration management system, detailing Configerator and Gatekeeper performance metrics, latency breakdowns, real‑world configuration error incidents, statistical analysis of failures, and the DevOps practices that keep the system reliable and scalable.
The article explains that to improve software delivery you must first agree on what actually flows through the value stream, evaluates existing metrics, introduces four mutually exclusive flow work‑item categories—including features, security/compliance, and technical debt—and shows how this lean, business‑centric view helps identify bottlenecks and drive productivity.
This article compiles a series of real-world Jenkins pipeline problems—ranging from Git parameter handling and credential usage to Sonar scanning, JSON parsing, and pipeline control—offering concise solutions and code snippets to help DevOps engineers avoid common pitfalls and streamline their CI/CD workflows.
Experienced developers can often identify performance bottlenecks simply by reviewing code implementations, configuration settings such as timeouts, intervals, database and Redis parameters, as well as service monitoring data, container and JVM configurations, allowing them to avoid unnecessary test scripts and code changes.
This tutorial introduces GitLab CI/CD, explains its core concepts, reasons to choose it, outlines typical pipeline stages and jobs, and provides a complete example .gitlab-ci.yml configuration with code snippets for building, testing, and deploying a Node.js application.
The article argues that software development should adopt physical product delivery principles such as lean production, value‑stream organization, and customer‑centric metrics, illustrating the growing complexity of software in products like cars and urging organizations to treat software as a continuous product flow rather than a time‑boxed project.
This article outlines the critical backend components required for building robust Java services, covering API gateways, MVC/IOC/ORM frameworks, caching, databases, search engines, message queues, file storage, unified authentication, configuration, service governance, scheduling, logging, data pipelines, and monitoring strategies.
Even with thorough testing environments, bugs often surface in production due to missing continuous monitoring, rushed last‑minute releases, inadequate compatibility checks, data inconsistencies, outdated QA practices, lack of shared goals, and microservice deployment challenges, highlighting the need for robust, production‑mirroring QA processes.
The article examines Spotify’s scaled agile model, detailing its organizational units—Squads, Tribes, Chapters, and Guilds—along with their characteristics, governance, dependency management, and comparison to other large‑scale agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, and Scrum@Scale.
The article explains how traditional IT silos hinder rapid incident response, outlines common symptoms of poorly managed applications, and argues that adopting DevOps—supported by cloud‑native infrastructure, automation, and shared responsibility—delivers higher transparency, employee autonomy, operational quality, and customer satisfaction.
This article details Alibaba Entertainment's front‑end engineering challenges and presents a comprehensive solution that consolidates tools, introduces Hub CLI and Hub Service, defines a unified lifecycle, automates releases, enforces quality gates, and enables domain‑specific extensions to achieve scalable, maintainable front‑end development.
This guide explains why Gogs is a lightweight alternative to GitLab, outlines its key features, details the required environment, and provides step‑by‑step Linux commands for installing, configuring, and running the self‑hosted Git server, including troubleshooting tips and post‑installation notes.
The article explores the current state of Serverless, comparing its hype to teenage sex, examines why many talk about it without practical implementation, outlines its vision of abstracting servers, discusses gaps in programming models and cloud native tooling, and identifies the real needs for stability, security, and cost‑effective resource management.
This guide compiles the most frequently used Git commands, explaining their purpose, common options, and practical scenarios such as logging, branching, committing, rebasing, merging, stashing, and reverting, to help developers work efficiently with version control in real-world projects.
The article explains how designing autonomous, end‑to‑end responsible teams—by minimizing inter‑team collaboration, adopting full‑process or cross‑functional squads, and leveraging automation tools—leads to better software architecture, aligns with Conway’s law, and improves efficiency in modern DevOps environments.
This article provides a complete, step‑by‑step tutorial for uninstalling old Docker versions, configuring the APT repository, installing Docker Engine on Ubuntu, verifying the installation, enabling automatic start on boot, and setting up image acceleration.
This article explains how Skyscanner integrated the Sonar Secrets plugin into their CI/CD pipeline to automatically detect hard‑coded secrets such as passwords, API tokens, and AWS credentials, covering setup, build commands, installation steps, and enabling the rules in SonarQube quality profiles.
This article provides a comprehensive step‑by‑step guide for installing, configuring, and performance‑tuning the Rainbond (formerly CloudHelp) Kubernetes‑based platform, covering prerequisites, FAQ, installation commands, node addition, kernel and system parameter adjustments, and post‑installation verification.
This article presents a comprehensive DevOps case study of Bilibili, covering its cultural background, community ecosystem, user‑centric demand management, migration to high‑performance microservices, and the implementation of logging, monitoring, and real‑time data platforms to support rapid, reliable delivery.
This article introduces Portainer.io, a lightweight graphical interface for Docker that simplifies container monitoring, image handling, and stack creation, providing step‑by‑step installation commands, feature highlights, and practical usage tips for cloud‑native developers.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Jenkins' architecture, detailing the master and slave nodes, web interface, jobs, plugins, security, credentials, cloud agents, global settings, logging, configuration storage, connection methods, and best practices for backup and deployment.
This article demonstrates how to install the Jenkins File Operations plugin, generate its DSL configuration, run a pipeline that creates a file, lists directory contents, and includes a sample pipeline script with logs and screenshots illustrating each step.
This article outlines why DevOps is a hot career path, answers common questions about tools and practices, presents a 2020 DevOps roadmap, recommends key books such as The Phoenix Project and Continuous Delivery, and suggests free and paid courses—including Jenkins pipelines and CI/CD—to help beginners become competent DevOps engineers.
QAOps integrates continuous testing from DevOps into the software development lifecycle, combining automated testing, parallel execution, and scalable reporting to improve collaboration between QA engineers, developers, and operations teams while accelerating and stabilizing software releases.
This article describes how to build a CI/CD pipeline using TFS for source control and Jenkins for automation on a Red Hat OpenShift‑based PaaS, covering code management, automated builds, testing, container image creation, deployment, and the necessary Jenkins and TFS configurations.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step tutorial for installing and configuring the Yapi API management platform on a CentOS 7.6 server, covering system prerequisites, Node.js and MongoDB setup, environment configuration, deployment commands, and common error troubleshooting.
The article examines the critical challenges of operational security in internet companies, proposes a “nuclear button” permission‑minimization framework, and outlines practical automation solutions such as bastion hosts, Ansible task control, and backup management to balance safety, cost, and efficiency.
The article reviews the State of DevOps Report series (2014‑2019), highlighting rising industry performance, the critical role of fast and secure software delivery, community building, cloud adoption, work‑life balance, and the shift toward automation and personal effectiveness as key drivers of high‑performing DevOps organizations.
Wang Lihua’s talk introduces Tencent Cloud Base’s serverless cloud development platform for Mini Programs—an integrated, one‑cloud‑multiple‑clients solution that eliminates backend setup, offers elastic resources, rich SDKs, and pre‑packaged services—enabling rapid, low‑cost app creation, real‑time scaling, and new developer roles across web, mobile, and cloud.
This article analyzes the rapid construction of Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospitals, using it as a case study to compare waterfall, spiral, iterative, and Scrum development models, discuss the shift toward agile practices, and outline quality‑built operations principles for complex, time‑critical projects.
This guide explains how to refresh the Jenkins interface by installing the Simple Theme plugin, applying an online material CSS stylesheet or a local custom CSS file, and configuring the theme settings to achieve improved fonts, syntax highlighting, and console output appearance.
The pandemic has forced a fundamental shift in R&D management toward resource‑centric, DevOps‑enabled practices while prompting tech leaders to rethink career paths, business models, and growth strategies, highlighting both the challenges and opportunities for technology entrepreneurship in the new era.
This article analyzes how the rapid, modular construction methods used for the Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospitals can be mapped to software development, illustrating parallels in requirement decomposition, architecture selection, containerization, and cloud‑native microservice design for efficient DevOps delivery.
This article presents a detailed DevOps case study of the Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospital construction, outlining a ten‑day timeline of parallel and serial value‑streams, highlighting extreme efficiency, short lead times, and a high proportion of value‑added activities across infrastructure, power, communications, medical systems, and IT equipment.
This guide shows how to bypass Vagrant's default box download failures by manually fetching Ubuntu and CentOS box files from Chinese mirror sites, importing them into Vagrant on macOS, and verifying the setup with practical commands and examples.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of the 14 most popular CI/CD tools, describing their main functionalities, licensing models, and official websites to help teams choose the most suitable solution for fast and reliable software delivery.
This article details a comprehensive, day‑long migration of a WeChat mini‑program's backend—including Kubernetes, RDS, Redis, NAS, CDN and SNAT services—from an Alibaba Cloud A account in Hangzhou to a B account in Beijing, emphasizing pre‑planning, resource optimization, DTS‑based data sync, and zero‑downtime cut‑over.
This guide explains why K3S—a CNCF‑certified, lightweight Kubernetes distribution—is ideal for production, outlines its small footprint and multi‑architecture support, shows how to build a production K3S cluster, and provides steps to deploy microservice applications using ready‑to‑use container images.
This guide walks you through installing the Blue Ocean plugin, accessing its UI, creating a multibranch pipeline, editing stages such as the GetCode stage, and committing the generated Jenkinsfile, highlighting its visual features and current limitations.
This article explains how the Open Application Model (OAM) addresses the inherent complexity of the Kubernetes API by introducing an application‑centric resource model, separating developer and operator concerns, and providing a portable application abstraction that enables more efficient cloud‑native DevOps workflows.
The case study details how a major state‑owned real estate company, with nearly 40 years of experience, built a three‑stage cloud‑native middle‑platform strategy—business, data, and technology platforms—using microservices, containers, and Tencent Cloud TSF to achieve integrated operations, data‑driven decision making, and agile infrastructure across its nationwide projects.
This article reviews the rapid ten‑day construction of Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospitals from a DevOps perspective, highlighting how a ‘small team, big backend’ organizational model—mirroring agile and networked structures—enabled efficient coordination across multiple industries and swift project delivery.
The article explains serverless computing—distinguishing it from pure FaaS, outlining its layered architecture, core principles of the Serverless Framework, and step‑by‑step deployment using the CLI—showing how developers can quickly turn ideas into scalable products while abstracting infrastructure management.
This article explains why Kubernetes has become the de‑facto standard, outlines simple methods to get a usable cluster such as Katacoda, Minikube or cloud services, and proposes a focused learning path that starts with core concepts and real‑world deployment scenarios for developers.
Zhejiang Mobile’s IT Operations team announced a strategic shift from reactive ticket‑driven maintenance to a proactive, AI‑powered AIOpsDev model, establishing new departments, adopting SRE practices, and leveraging cloud‑native technologies to dramatically improve efficiency, reliability, and digital transformation.
This guide explains how to write multi‑line text in YAML configuration files, covering techniques to keep paragraph breaks when displaying the value and methods to collapse line breaks for a single‑line output, complete with code examples and practical differences.
This article describes how to create an immutable Jenkins instance by storing all configuration and job definitions as declarative code, building a Docker image with required plugins, using the Configuration‑as‑Code and Job‑DSL plugins, and automating setup tasks such as default user creation and wizard skipping across multiple environments.
This tutorial explains Docker's data management techniques, covering the concepts and hands‑on steps for using volumes and bind mounts, how to back up logs and MongoDB data, and how to restore them, providing a complete guide for reliable container data handling.
At Tencent Cloud’s closed‑door TVP meeting, experts traced cloud‑native’s evolution from monolithic to PB‑scale distributed platforms, highlighted its ecosystem of infrastructure, service‑mesh and Kubernetes‑driven scheduling, noted widespread Fortune‑100 and Tencent adoption, and stressed that successful implementation hinges more on organizational and developer mindset shifts than on technology maturity.
This article explains four concrete distinctions between Jenkins scripted and declarative pipelines—including code validation at start, stage restart capability, options handling, and conditional stage execution—illustrated with side‑by‑side code examples and screenshots.
This case study examines JD.com’s evolution into a technology‑driven enterprise, detailing its corporate culture, the “ABCDE” technology strategy, the implementation of DevOps and agile practices through the CALMS framework, and how unified continuous‑delivery platforms and operational metrics have driven growth, efficiency, and pandemic response.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step tutorial for building, containerizing, and deploying a Spring Cloud microservice project on a Kubernetes cluster, covering environment preparation, Maven builds, Docker image creation, YAML orchestration, and verification of the frontend portal.
This article reviews the ten most popular continuous integration tools of 2020—including Jenkins, Buddy, TeamCity, Bamboo, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Codeship, CruiseControl, Buildbot, and GoCD—detailing their main features, language support, integration options, and suitability for various DevOps workflows.
This article explains the core concepts of continuous integration, delivery, deployment, and testing, outlines common challenges such as limited environments and ownership issues, and highlights why CI/CD is vital for improving developer productivity, code quality, and faster software releases.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of front‑end technical base construction, covering its definition, importance, typical components such as standards, tooling, CI/CD, data tracking and performance automation, and shares practical experiences and best‑practice examples from the 2020 Front‑end Early Talk conference.
This article explains why modern services depend on highly available, scalable monitoring, outlines a systematic way to assess and improve monitoring capabilities using open‑source tools and the DevOps Capability Maturity Model, and details concrete improvement points across data collection, management, and application.
This guide explains how to use Kubernetes for fast, reliable application delivery by comparing rolling updates, blue‑green deployments, and canary (gray) releases, showing when each strategy fits, how to configure services, and how to control traffic with real code examples.
The article examines the energy sector’s digitalization challenges and presents CNPC’s “Dream Cloud” platform—detailing its cloud‑native architecture, container‑based PaaS, DevOps workflow, and service‑oriented framework—and shows how these technologies enable unified data sharing, agile application delivery, and measurable operational improvements across upstream oil and gas operations.
This article explains the fundamental principles, practical steps, and toolchain choices for designing a reliable CI/CD pipeline that accelerates software delivery while maintaining quality, covering integration, automation, DevOps culture, containerization, continuous testing, and controlled deployment.
The article reviews Meituan Delivery’s journey from early serial releases to bi‑weekly and weekly delivery models, detailing the key factors, automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and operational principles that enable faster, high‑quality mobile app releases.
This article explains the anti‑fragility concept, illustrates how cloud‑based systems become increasingly vulnerable to unexpected events, and offers practical strategies—including risk reduction, choice diversification, proactive experimentation, and biologically inspired resilience—to transform operations and turn shocks into opportunities.
This guide explains how to install and configure Jenkins' Email Extension plugin, set up SMTP settings, create a shared library Groovy script for email notifications, and test the email functionality within a Jenkins pipeline.
China’s first global DevOps Capability Maturity Model, jointly created by leading industry and academic partners, defines best‑practice assessments across agile development, continuous delivery, technical operations, security, and tooling, offering enterprises a concrete roadmap to mature their DevOps processes and achieve faster, reliable software delivery.
The article describes how Guangda Bank leveraged a cloud‑native container PaaS (CPAAS) platform to accelerate its fintech transformation, improve development efficiency, reduce costs, and support a wide range of digital banking services such as mobile banking, blockchain, and wealth management.
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of Ant Financial’s financial‑grade R&D efficiency practices, covering industry challenges, the SOFAStack‑LinkE platform, agile and DevOps methodologies, continuous integration, testing, deployment, release strategies, cloud‑native transformation, and consulting solutions for improving development productivity and reliability.
This article outlines a step‑by‑step procedure for safely taking an Elasticsearch node offline—checking master‑eligible settings, adjusting minimum_master_nodes, excluding the node from routing, waiting for shard relocation, stopping the service, and restoring the cluster routing—ensuring no data loss or service interruption.
This article provides a comprehensive, illustrated introduction to Kubernetes, covering its definition, key advantages, practical scenarios such as logging, DevOps, and microservices, core features, architecture, and essential master and node components for beginners.
During the pandemic, Tencent Cloud University launched a free online course on automated maintenance, teaching automation concepts, tools, and the BlueKing platform, while instructor Li Xiaohui—an expert in OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ceph—shared his infrastructure experience and offered participants chances to earn free A‑level certification exam slots through live Q&A sessions.
This article provides a comprehensive explanation of Docker’s architecture, detailing the differences between images and containers, the role of the union file system, and how various Docker commands such as create, start, run, ps, and build operate on these layers.
This tutorial explains how to set up Docker‑in‑Docker for Jenkins, mount the Docker socket, run containers as root, and create multi‑stage pipelines that use different Docker images for Maven and Node builds, including troubleshooting tips.
On Feb 23, Weimeng suffered a large‑scale system outage caused by a core operations staff mistakenly deleting production databases, prompting a multi‑day recovery effort with Tencent Cloud support; the article examines the incident’s background, historical parallels, crisis response, and broader operational insights for DevOps and reliability engineering.
This guide explains how to deploy Jenkins using Docker, set up both static and dynamic Docker‑based slaves, configure plugin sources, adjust certificates, and fine‑tune Docker Cloud settings for reliable CI/CD pipelines.
This article explains what Jenkins and pipelines are, then guides you through installing Docker, running a Jenkins container, retrieving the initial admin password, and completing the Jenkins setup via the web interface, including plugin installation and user creation.
During the pandemic, Tencent Cloud University partnered with its TVP team to launch a free live course series led by senior DELL EMC architect Ru Bingsheng, teaching disruptive, agile software‑testing innovations for the UVCA era, while offering interactive Q&A, prizes, and TVP certification information.
