This article chronicles the history of DevOps and its related practices—from the Toyota Production System and Kanban to Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, Lean, and modern concepts like ChatOps, GitOps, FinOps and AiOps—highlighting how each milestone shaped today’s software delivery culture.
This article explores how cloud‑native principles are reshaping DevOps collaboration, examines emerging trends in next‑generation DevOps platforms, and details how KubeVela—leveraging OAM, multi‑cluster delivery, workflow definitions, and GitOps—provides a unified, application‑centric solution for modern enterprise environments.
This article explains what GitOps is, its core principles such as declarative systems and versioned state, the advantages it brings to infrastructure management, and step‑by‑step guidance on implementing GitOps pipelines for cloud‑native applications.
KubeVela 1.1 introduces an OAM‑based, application‑centric model, programmable CUE‑driven workflows, and a 100% control‑plane architecture that together enable infrastructure‑agnostic, multi‑cluster, and GitOps‑ready delivery of cloud‑native applications across hybrid environments.
This guide explains the origins of GitOps, introduces Argo CD’s architecture and core concepts, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing, configuring, and operating Argo CD on Kubernetes, including CLI usage, cluster registration, application creation, synchronization, and health monitoring.
This guide shows how to refactor a Tekton CI/CD pipeline by extracting Helm chart templates into a separate repository, configuring Argo CD to manage the deployment stage, and adding Tekton tasks that update Helm values, sync the application, and handle health checks, achieving a full GitOps workflow on Kubernetes.
The article outlines the evolution from traditional code repositories to a code‑as‑service model, describing how pipeline‑as‑code, machine‑as‑code, server‑cluster‑as‑code and infrastructure‑as‑code (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) enable cloud‑native development, DevOps automation, and platform‑centric R&D ecosystems.
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.
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 demonstrates how to build a CI pipeline, extend it with GitOps for environment updates, and create a CD pipeline using Jenkins, GitLab webhooks, Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes to automate the build, test, and deployment of multiple microservices.
The article reviews the 2020 CNCF report and outlines upcoming cloud‑native trends such as cloud‑based IDEs, edge Kubernetes, WebAssembly, FinOps, Rust adoption, GitOps growth, service catalogs, cross‑cloud control planes, and the rising mainstream of eBPF.
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.
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 step‑by‑step guide to building a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, GitOps, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes, covering software installation, plugin configuration, shared library setup, Jenkinsfile creation, image building, deployment with Kustomize, and webhook integration with GitLab.
This guide walks you through building a complete CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, GitOps, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, SonarQube, Docker, and GitLab integration, covering software installation, shared library setup, pipeline scripting, image building, deployment, and webhook triggering in a cloud‑native environment.
This article explains the concepts of GitOps and Argo CD, walks through installing Argo CD on a Kubernetes cluster, and demonstrates creating, syncing, and updating applications via the web UI, highlighting key advantages and practical commands for continuous delivery.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide to implementing a GitOps workflow on a Kubernetes cluster using Argo CD and GitLab CI, covering Argo CD installation, Helm deployment, application configuration, CI/CD pipeline definition, and deployment to dev and prod environments.
This article explains how cloud‑native techniques transform application architecture from IaaS to PaaS, outlines three practical steps to accelerate delivery, and provides concrete examples such as Service Mesh, lightweight containers for log collection, and health‑probe driven lifecycle management.
The article examines how organizations can construct their own multi‑cloud PaaS platforms by leveraging Kubernetes‑based tools such as Crossplane and the Open Application Model (OAM), highlighting the architectural benefits, typical workflow, and challenges revealed in an interview with Upbound CEO Bassam Tabbara.
A senior infrastructure engineer shares hard‑won lessons from migrating a large team to pure Kubernetes, covering deployment speed, error reduction, observability, networking, monitoring, GitOps, custom operators, secret handling, CI, and logging challenges in modern cloud‑native environments.
This article demonstrates a complete GitOps workflow on Kubernetes using Argo CD and GitLab CI, covering installation, configuration of Argo CD, GitLab project setup, Helm deployment, and a multi‑stage CI/CD pipeline that automatically builds, publishes Docker images, and synchronizes applications in dev and prod environments.
This article explains how to use GitLab's protected environments and manual approval jobs to control production deployments, illustrating configuration examples, adding approval stages, and discussing the benefits of GitOps for secure, compliant CI/CD pipelines.
The article explains Meituan's MySQL inspection framework, covering its design principles, three‑layer architecture, inspection items, automation workflow, and operational results that reduced hidden risks and improved database stability.
This article explains how to implement infrastructure‑as‑code for CI/CD tools on a shared Kubernetes cluster by using a lightweight variable‑template engine, configuring Jenkins, Gogs, and Nexus via ConfigMaps, initContainers, and REST/Script APIs, and combining multiple automation techniques for seamless deployment.
This article explains cloud‑native fundamentals, the evolving role of DevOps in the cloud‑native era, and presents a detailed GitOps secure release model with architecture diagrams, branch‑to‑environment mappings, Jenkins pipelines, and supporting tools for efficient, safe application delivery.
In this reflective Thanksgiving post, the author thanks DevOps practices—consistent code delivery, automated CI/CD pipelines, and application containerization—highlighting how they eliminate manual errors, improve accountability across environments, enable scalable infrastructure as code, and foster collaboration, ultimately transforming the software development lifecycle.
Ant Financial’s Kubernetes team built one of the world’s largest clusters—hundreds of thousands of nodes—by applying cloud‑native operators, GitOps, and extensive performance optimizations to achieve rapid, automated, and reliable large‑scale workloads during the 2019 Tmall 618 promotion.
