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.
