This article explains the current state of cloud‑native alerting, introduces Grafana Mimir as a horizontally scalable, multi‑tenant storage for Prometheus, details its architecture and components, and provides step‑by‑step guidance for installing, configuring, and operating Mimir in Kubernetes environments.
This article explores how edge computing, combined with cloud-native technologies, 5G, and GPU acceleration, enables real‑time data processing, intelligent inspection, digital twins, and autonomous driving in the automotive industry, outlining practical architectures, hardware choices, and deployment patterns.
This article explains how Kubernetes can be configured for multi‑tenant isolation using control‑plane mechanisms like namespaces, RBAC, and quotas, data‑plane techniques such as container runtimes, storage policies, and network policies, and compares namespace‑based tenancy with virtual control‑plane and multi‑cluster approaches.
The 2022 Open Source Big Data Heat Report, released at the Yunqi Conference, analyzes 102 active projects, discovers a 40‑month “Moore’s law” doubling of project heat, highlights three major trends—diversification, integration, and cloud‑native—and ranks the top 30 hottest open‑source big‑data projects.
Koordinator, an open‑source cloud‑native scheduler launched in April 2022, unifies heterogeneous workloads on Kubernetes through zero‑intrusion plugins, fine‑grained resource oversubscription, QoS‑aware scheduling, and a flexible descheduler framework, dramatically improving resource utilization and latency‑sensitive service performance.
This article examines why traffic loss occurs during Kubernetes application releases, breaks down the three main traffic paths—LoadBalancer Service, Nginx Ingress, and microservice registry—and offers concrete, cloud‑native configurations and lifecycle hooks to achieve loss‑free deployments.
This article introduces the 2022 China Cloud Computing Infrastructure Developer Conference, highlights Zhang Jiachen's talk on the FUSE cache consistency model, explains the performance‑consistency trade‑off, and outlines optimization strategies and practical case studies for improving FUSE‑based storage solutions.
This comprehensive tutorial walks through preparing hosts, installing Docker and containerd, setting up Kubernetes components, initializing a HA master cluster, configuring networking, deploying the Kubernetes dashboard, NFS storage, Harbor registry, and an Nginx/Keepalived load balancer, all with detailed commands and configuration files.
The talk outlines how AI training’s growing data and compute demands create storage bottlenecks across four evolutionary stages, identifies four core problems—massive data, data‑flow, resource scheduling, and compute acceleration—and proposes hardware, software (parallel file systems, caching), and cloud‑native orchestration (Fluid, Baidu Canghai) solutions that combine object‑storage lakes with high‑performance acceleration layers to achieve near‑full GPU utilization.
This guide explains why native cloud monitoring falls short, how building custom Prometheus exporters adds overhead, and how Alibaba Cloud's fully managed Prometheus service—through enterprise cloud‑monitoring and self‑monitoring integration modes—provides ready‑to‑use exporters, agents, Grafana dashboards, and alert templates for dozens of cloud products.
This article examines CI/CD approaches within a Kubernetes ecosystem, detailing pull- and push-based pipeline architectures, their advantages and disadvantages, key considerations such as automated testing, validation and rollbacks, and reviews popular open-source tools like Spinnaker, Jenkins X and Argo CD.
This article explains the fundamentals of CI/CD, why it is critical for Serverless architectures, and provides step‑by‑step guidance with code snippets for integrating Serverless Devs into GitHub Actions, Gitee Go, Jenkins pipelines, and CloudEffect, including tool installation, secret configuration, and deployment commands.
This article explains how Kubernetes enables service‑to‑service communication using three native objects—ClusterIP Service, CoreDNS for DNS‑based discovery, and Kube‑proxy for DNAT—while abstracting the underlying network complexities from applications.
This article examines why databases are foundational to modern IT, traces the historical development of distributed database technologies, compares various architectural approaches such as sharding middleware, shared‑storage and shared‑nothing designs, and discusses emerging trends like multi‑model, HTAP, cloud‑native, and open‑source ecosystems.
This article dissects Netflix’s massive backend system—covering its dual‑cloud deployment, Open Connect CDN, micro‑service architecture, API gateway, container platform, caching layers, data stores, and real‑time streaming pipelines—to reveal how the streaming giant achieves extreme scalability, reliability, and performance.
This article details how BizWorks integrates KubeVela to build a cloud‑native PaaS platform that streamlines application deployment, resolves fragmented configuration challenges, and delivers continuous integration and delivery capabilities across multi‑cloud environments.
This article outlines ten indispensable cloud‑native tools—from Docker and Kubernetes to Serverless, Helm, Ansible, and Wireshark—explaining how each supports modern agile development, improves infrastructure stability, and accelerates digital transformation in post‑pandemic enterprises.
This article introduces the role of the Kubernetes API server, explains kubectl syntax and concepts, and provides detailed explanations of eight essential kubectl commands—including listing resources, describing objects, creating and modifying resources, deleting objects, handling PersistentVolumes, configuring security contexts, managing deployments, and executing commands inside pods—helping readers master everyday Kubernetes operations.
This article recounts Ximalaya's journey from a simple Docker‑based project template to a full‑featured Kubernetes‑driven container platform, describing the principles, tools, health‑check strategies, deployment patterns, middleware integration, and lessons learned for building reliable cloud‑native services.
Noslate is Alibaba’s new open‑source, cloud‑native serverless JavaScript runtime that combines a custom cold‑start‑optimized Node.js distribution, the Aworker container with Warmfork and V8 startup snapshots for sub‑millisecond launches, a Noslated control plane for flexible worker orchestration, and a Corefile‑based debugger for low‑impact diagnostics.
This article examines the importance, definitions, classifications, and technological evolution of distributed databases in China, outlines major architecture routes such as sharding middleware, shared‑storage and decentralized models, discusses HTAP and cloud‑native trends, and summarizes future directions including open‑source ecosystems and industry support.
China Minsheng Bank’s Centralized Operation Business Processing System passed the CAICT DevOps Technical Operations Level 2 assessment, marking the first joint‑stock bank to reach this advanced domestic standard, and the article details the interview insights, system architecture, and broader DevOps standard overview.
BitSail, ByteDance’s open‑source data integration engine built on Flink, has evolved through three major versions to support batch, streaming and CDC modes, handling over 200,000 daily tasks across 20+ data sources, and aims to meet real‑time, cloud‑native integration demands.
The article explains that SRE, introduced by Google, is not a single specialist but a collaborative mindset requiring product, development, testing, operations, and architecture skills, and argues that even small‑scale teams can achieve stability by embracing these principles despite common misconceptions.
This article compares HashiCorp's Nomad and Kubernetes, outlining their features, similarities, differences, and use‑case scenarios to help you decide which container orchestration platform best fits your workload and operational needs.
This step‑by‑step tutorial walks through setting up a multi‑node Kubernetes cluster, configuring high availability with Nginx and Keepalived, installing Docker and containerd, deploying an NFS provisioner, configuring Ingress, and installing a secure Harbor registry using Helm and custom TLS certificates.
This article details Guangdong Mobile's end‑to‑end journey of designing, constructing, and operating a production‑grade container cloud platform, covering architecture decisions, monitoring, logging, high‑availability, scaling, network optimization, upgrade challenges, and lessons learned for cloud‑native practitioners.
The article chronicles the architectural evolution of China Telecom's Tianyi Account gateway—from its 2017 Zuul‑based 1.0 implementation, through a 2.0 redesign using Kong with custom plugins, to the current 3.0 version featuring CP/DP separation, multi‑language plugins, and cloud‑native deployment, highlighting performance gains, scalability, and operational improvements.
This article presents the motivation, architecture, component selection, user authentication flow, micro‑service integration, and technical details—including custom Lua plugins and NGINX phases—of an automated operations platform built on the cloud‑native API gateway Apache APISIX.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Docker's client‑server architecture, detailing the roles of Docker Client, Daemon, Engine, jobs, Registry, Graph database, drivers, libcontainer library, and how they collectively enable container creation, image management, networking, and resource control.
This guide walks you through the entire lifecycle of a Serverless application on Alibaba Cloud, covering function creation via the console, project initialization and deployment with Serverless Devs, various debugging techniques—including online, breakpoint, proxy, and local debugging—and best practices for dependency management and performance testing.
Hulu’s data platform team describes how they migrated large‑scale Spark workloads from Yarn to native Spark on Kubernetes, leveraging AWS services such as EKS, S3, and custom operators to achieve dynamic scaling, unified monitoring, cost‑effective resource management, and improved stability for search, recommendation, and advertising pipelines.
The article examines the inherent and accidental complexities of Kubernetes as a distributed cluster manager, discusses challenges in resource scheduling, infrastructure diversity, and operational overhead, and explores how cloud‑native solutions such as managed services, nodeless and serverless Kubernetes architectures attempt to reduce these complexities while introducing new trade‑offs.
This article provides a detailed comparative analysis of the cloud‑native application platforms KubeSphere and Rainbond, evaluating their product positioning, community activity, installation experience, application deployment, micro‑service architecture, marketplace features, multi‑cluster management, and operational capabilities to help readers choose the most suitable solution for their needs.
This presentation details Huolala's end‑to‑end cloud‑native cost‑optimization strategy, covering the company's infrastructure basics, Kubernetes‑based server cost‑saving techniques, a tailored optimization roadmap, practical Spot Instance usage, and a custom CronHPA‑driven scheduled scaling solution to boost resource utilization.
This article explains the fundamentals of DevOps and CI/CD, detailing their definitions, the roles of Continuous Integration and Delivery, their relationship, and practical steps for enterprises to adopt CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD.
This guide compares the leading container registries—Amazon ECR, Azure Container Registry, Docker Hub, Google Cloud Container Registry, and Harbor—highlighting their features, management capabilities, security scanning, and integration with cloud‑native workflows.
This article explains when an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) makes sense, when it doesn’t, and outlines the core tools and concepts that compose an IDP, helping teams decide whether to adopt a platform‑centric approach.
This article examines the comprehensive challenges AI applications face from storage to compute, traces the evolution of AI training infrastructure, analyzes key bottlenecks such as compute acceleration, resource scheduling, massive data handling and data flow, and presents Baidu Cloud's storage acceleration solutions—including parallel file systems, caching, and the Fluid scheduler—to dramatically improve AI training performance.
OpenYurt v1.0, released on September 9, introduces API governance improvements, expanded test coverage with CodeCov, performance testing for Yurthub, streamlined installation, and outlines future enhancements across ControlPlane, DataPlane, and IoT SIGs, with detailed GitHub project links for each.
This article presents a practical three‑step methodology—understanding, managing, and preventing—to troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments, explains how to leverage monitoring, observability, and incident‑response tools, and offers guidance on fostering team collaboration and building resilient, self‑healing cloud‑native systems.
The article examines growing developer frustration with operational responsibilities, the perceived decline of DevOps, and how platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering are emerging as new approaches to balance development speed with reliable operations in cloud‑native environments.
Noslate is an open‑source, cloud‑native project from Alibaba that introduces a lightweight JavaScript runtime, optimized Node.js distribution, and an offline debugger to dramatically improve serverless cold‑start times, elasticity, and diagnostic capabilities across diverse platforms, including ARM and traditional x86 environments.
Noslate is an open‑source, cloud‑native suite comprising a custom Node.js distribution, the lightweight Aworker runtime with Warmfork and Startup Snapshot technologies, all designed to dramatically reduce cold‑start latency and improve JavaScript task elasticity in serverless environments.
Noslate is an open‑source, cloud‑native project from Alibaba that introduces a lightweight JavaScript runtime, optimized Node.js distribution, and an offline debugger to dramatically reduce cold‑start latency, improve elasticity, and simplify diagnostics for serverless workloads across diverse architectures.
RocketMQ 5.0 introduces a brand‑new unified API built on gRPC, refines client types, adds four message categories, pre‑fetches topic routes, embeds a telemetry channel, and provides OpenTelemetry‑based tracing and metrics, all while offering a cloud‑native SDK repository for developers.
Google donated Istio to the CNCF, which was accepted as an incubating project, introducing the experimental Ambient Mesh mode while retaining sidecar support, and the article outlines Istio's architecture, history, community contributions, and industry perspectives on this cloud‑native milestone.
Vivo’s engineering team shares their practical experience creating a Karmada‑Operator using the Operator SDK and Ansible, detailing background, deployment challenges, design choices, API and architecture, etcd management, member cluster handling, CI pipeline, and performance testing to enable robust multi‑cloud Kubernetes orchestration.
Liaoning Mobile’s DevOps R&D system was selected as a flagship case at the recent Service Trade Fair, showcasing how the company accelerated its digital transformation through agile delivery, cloud‑native architecture, intelligent operations, and comprehensive talent development to boost development efficiency and business agility.
Koordinator v0.7 adds major cloud‑native scheduling features—including enhanced gang (coscheduling) with Strict/NonStrict modes, multi‑hierarchy ElasticQuota management, fine‑grained GPU resource protocols, richer diagnostic APIs, and safer descheduling—targeting machine‑learning and big‑data workloads on Kubernetes.
This tutorial explains the fundamentals of Serverless architecture, outlines its BaaS and FaaS components, presents three typical use cases, and provides a step‑by‑step guide—including Python code and deployment instructions—to create an automated daily email service on Alibaba Cloud Serverless.
After moving to a new team lacking a dedicated gateway, the author evaluates two popular microservice gateway solutions—Spring Cloud Gateway and Apache APISIX—comparing their features, cloud‑native capabilities, performance, and ease of use, ultimately selecting Spring Cloud Gateway for its Java ecosystem and extensibility.
The article traces Docker’s evolution from a solution for app packaging and PaaS challenges to a developer‑centric platform that introduced Swarm, highlighting how its container technology reshaped cloud‑native computing and sparked a new ecosystem.
This article explains how Kubernetes, since its 2014 debut, has become a declarative, API‑driven cloud operating system that offers scalability, portability, and a rich ecosystem, transforming how enterprises develop, deploy, and manage applications across heterogeneous environments.
This article explains the fundamentals of service mesh as a cloud‑native infrastructure layer, covering its control‑plane and data‑plane architecture, sidecar and waypoint proxies, L4/L7 decoupling, eBPF acceleration, zero‑trust security, traffic management, observability, and real‑world deployment scenarios.
This article introduces the Advanced Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (AHPA), explains its three‑stage architecture of data collection, prediction, and scaling, details the RobustScaler forecasting algorithm and CRD‑based deployment, and evaluates its ability to proactively and reactively adjust pod counts with high robustness.
This article explains the challenges of point‑to‑point data sync, introduces RocketMQ Connect as a cloud‑native solution that decouples upstream and downstream, details its architecture, connectors, REST API, metrics, deployment modes, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to building custom connectors for use cases such as CDC, data lakes, and system migration.
Facing occasional traffic spikes and high server costs, the author migrated a holiday gift‑distribution project from an ALB‑ECS‑MySQL‑Redis stack to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, detailing cost reductions, zero‑idle‑instance savings, custom runtime setup, logging adjustments, VPC networking, deployment via Serverless Devs, and domain binding.
This article explains the challenges of SaaS private‑cloud deployment, compares source‑code and container deployment, introduces Kubernetes and KubeSphere, outlines required infrastructure, provides Docker and Harbor installation steps, and shows how to use KubeKey to configure and manage a full‑stack private cloud platform.
vivo created an Ansible‑based Karmada‑Operator that declaratively manages multi‑cluster deployments, etcd backup/restore, and control‑plane upgrades via custom CRDs and CI pipelines, addressing the limitations of existing tools and providing extensible, reliable, self‑healing orchestration for large‑scale Kubernetes environments.
Facing high operational costs and scaling challenges with its self-built Harbor registry, Lixun Logistics migrated core container images to Alibaba Cloud’s ACR Enterprise Edition, achieving a 50% reduction in registry complexity, 60% faster image distribution, and enhanced security across multi-region deployments.
Crane‑scheduler improves Kubernetes efficiency by collecting real‑time node metrics via Prometheus, annotating nodes, and applying configurable predicates and weighted priorities—plus a hot‑value mechanism—to balance load, cut waste, and prevent hotspots, delivering more stable, better‑utilized clusters.
This article introduces five powerful, open‑source command‑line tools—K9s, Popeye, kube‑bench, kubectx/kubens with fzf, and Stern (plus Bat)—that enhance productivity when working with Kubernetes clusters, complete with installation commands and usage examples.
This article details Tencent Cloud's year‑long practical optimizations for Apache Pulsar, covering Ack hole impacts, TTL/Backlog/Retention strategies, delayed‑message handling, Admin API blocking, ZooKeeper and BookKeeper leaks, and multi‑level cache improvements to achieve stable, high‑performance messaging at massive scale.
Amid the digital transformation wave, cloud‑native applications are projected to power over 95% of new initiatives by 2025, prompting Lingque Cloud and CNBPA to publish a practical guide that outlines concepts, migration paths, DevOps benefits, micro‑service selection, and real‑world case studies for modernizing enterprise software.
This article explains how to use Alibaba Cloud's Microservice Insight to quickly locate which Spring MVC controller processes a specific request in a Spring Cloud environment, covering demo setup, DispatcherServlet internals, rule configuration, and real‑time stack trace collection.
This case study explains how Shenzhen Yichuan Technology migrated its high‑traffic Alipay mini‑program to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, detailing the development workflow, CI/CD pipeline, operational monitoring, performance gains, cost savings, and future improvement suggestions.
This article explains the pain points of developing micro‑service applications on Kubernetes, compares common cloud‑native development workflows, and introduces Nocalhost’s hot‑reload architecture, development modes, and open‑source roadmap to dramatically speed up coding, debugging, and testing cycles.
Eclipse Foundation announced Jakarta EE 10, introducing a new Core Profile and dozens of updated specifications that simplify, modernize, and lightweight‑enforce cloud‑native Java applications while maintaining compatibility with earlier releases.
This article explains how to build highly available microservices by addressing the inherent risks of distributed systems and presenting fault‑tolerance patterns such as graceful degradation, change management, health checks, self‑healing, failover caching, retries, rate limiting, bulkheads, circuit breakers, and systematic failure testing.
This article explains how to use Dragonwell‑provided environment variables to inject Java Agents only into business Java processes in Kubernetes‑based microservices, avoiding unwanted agent loading for JDK tools while leveraging Alibaba Cloud MSE for seamless cloud‑native governance.
This article explains why cloud‑native microservice adoption remains low, breaks down the Twelve‑Factor App principles, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to building, deploying, and managing Java microservices using EDAS Core on Kubernetes.
This guide explains how to install KubeSeal and its controller, encrypt Kubernetes Secret resources, store them safely in Git, and let the controller automatically decrypt them back into the cluster, reducing the risk of secret leakage.
This guide walks through designing a simple front‑end/back‑end microservices architecture, implementing it with Spring Boot and Eureka, deploying the services on a Kubernetes cluster using K8seasy, and adding high‑availability features such as multi‑instance registration, Prometheus‑Grafana monitoring, Zipkin tracing, and Sentinel flow‑control.
This article introduces the kubectl-watch plugin, explains how to install it via Docker, direct download, or Cargo, provides detailed command‑line options and usage examples for watching Kubernetes resources, and lists acknowledgments and reference links.
The article details a practical, reusable enterprise architecture for data classification and grading that combines scanning tools, a rule‑engine with hot‑updates, a high‑performance identification service, and a security enforcement platform, addressing massive real‑time data volumes, diverse storage types, cross‑department isolation, and compliance with China’s data security laws.
This article explains the challenges of data lake adoption and details Alibaba Cloud’s metadata warehouse architecture, construction, search capabilities, asset analysis, fine‑grained profiling, and lifecycle management that together enable efficient, cloud‑native big data management.
Polaris v1.11.3 introduces refined rate‑limiting rules, new configuration templates, several bug fixes across the server, console and K8s controller, provides detailed upgrade SQL scripts, and acknowledges new community contributors, with download links for all components.
Serverless Devs, an open‑source, CNCF‑sandbox serverless development platform, offers a plug‑in architecture supporting multiple cloud providers, lifecycle management, and extensible components, with six key advantages, a clear design philosophy, a growing history, and future plans to expand cloud vendor support and tooling.
This guide explains why and how to migrate Nginx Ingress or traditional micro‑service gateways to Alibaba Cloud's MSE cloud‑native gateway, covering security motivations, a five‑stage migration process, preparation steps, command‑line checks, CRD configuration, testing, and gradual SLB traffic shifting.
NetEase Media migrated SparkSQL to Kubernetes in 2021, using storage‑compute decoupling, hybrid deployment, custom scripts, Kyuubi failover, and extensive monitoring and resource governance, which cut cluster size by over 30% while keeping CPU utilization above 80% and GC throughput above 95%.
This article provides a concise overview of etcd and Kubernetes, detailing etcd’s features and use‑cases, explaining Kubernetes fundamentals, its relationship with Docker, and describing key components such as Minikube, Kubectl, Kubelet, common deployment methods, and the platform’s cluster management architecture.
This article walks through the evolution of a high‑traffic e‑commerce site—from a single‑machine setup to cloud‑native microservices—detailing each architectural milestone, the problems it solves, key technologies involved, and design principles for building scalable, highly available systems.
Dubbo Mesh, a cloud‑native extension of Dubbo, introduces a plugin‑driven design that separates control and data planes, supports hot‑plug components, and offers Java Proxyless and Sidecar deployment modes to simplify migration to a service‑mesh architecture while retaining Dubbo's scalability.
Spring Cloud Tencent 1.7 introduces support for Spring Cloud Hoxton, 2020, and 2021, provides a detailed version list and numbering scheme, and adds major features such as service governance plugins, dynamic configuration improvements, monitoring enhancements, and extended Polaris integration, with links to documentation and repositories.
This guide explains how to move a self‑hosted ZooKeeper cluster to Alibaba Cloud MSE ZooKeeper by exporting the snapshot file, preparing the MSE instance, uploading the snapshot, and verifying the migration with example client code.
This article traces the history of data lakes from their 2010 inception with Hadoop through cloud‑native object storage, lakehouse formats like Delta Lake, and Alibaba Cloud's multi‑layer solution, outlining key architectural stages and practical construction challenges for enterprise‑grade implementations.
The article explains Slack's cloud‑native development environment—a full, isolated copy of the Slack system running on AWS EC2—detailing why remote environments are used, how they are managed with custom tooling, and how dynamic provisioning enables massive scaling while controlling costs.
This article explains what Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinitions (CRDs) and Operators are, shows how they enable custom resources and automated lifecycle management, and presents practical YAML examples and a generic big‑data Operator design for cloud‑native environments.
This guide provides a comprehensive overview of Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, covering core commands for searching, pulling, installing, listing, creating charts, managing repositories and dependencies, upgrading, rolling back releases, and pushing charts to Harbor, complete with code examples and usage tips.
Learn step‑by‑step how to build a cost‑effective, pay‑per‑use WordPress website on Alibaba Cloud Serverless using Function Compute, NAS storage, RDS, and SLS, covering service activation, NAS setup, function configuration, custom domain binding, code deployment, and final verification.
This guide explains how to integrate the Arthas Java diagnostic tool with the Rainbond cloud‑native platform, covering plugin installation, tunnel setup, Web Console access, environment configuration, command usage, and flame‑graph generation for effective Java application troubleshooting.
Spring Cloud 2021.0.4 (Jubilee) builds on Spring Boot 2.7.x and introduces updates such as JSCH‑based SSH configuration for Config, native JSON support for GRPC filters in Gateway, binary encoding rewrite in OpenFeign, the ability to disable Resilience4J thread‑pool defaults in Circuitbreaker, and various dependency upgrades.
This guide explains how to create and manage Kubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps, covering YAML and kubectl methods, different secret types, mounting techniques, environment variable injection, image pull secrets, and practical examples for secure configuration handling in cloud‑native environments.
This comprehensive guide explains how to create and customize Docker images using Dockerfile, covering base image selection, RUN, COPY, ADD, CMD, ENTRYPOINT, ENV, VOLUME, EXPOSE, and WORKDIR instructions, along with best practices for layer optimization and context handling.
This article explains how to use a non‑intrusive microservice insight capability to dynamically log and observe Ribbon load‑balancing internals, capture service discovery data, and troubleshoot full‑link gray‑release traffic issues in Spring Cloud environments.
Kubernetes 1.25 officially ships cgroup v2 support, enabling the kubelet to leverage the latest Linux resource‑management features, and the article explains what cgroups are, the advantages of v2, how to enable it, migration considerations, and where to learn more.
This article explains the evolution and core principles of Serverless computing, outlines its benefits for reducing operational complexity and cost, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for building, testing, and exposing a function on Alibaba Cloud using Function Compute and API Gateway.
Building probe capabilities on OpenTelemetry gives cloud‑native teams a vendor‑neutral, standardized way to extend monitoring into full observability—supporting large‑scale, language‑specific instrumentation, plug‑and‑play plugins, and seamless integration with APM backends—so developers and operators can detect, debug, and predict faults across distributed containers.
This article explains what Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinitions (CRDs) are, how they extend the platform with user‑defined resources, and provides step‑by‑step examples for creating CRDs, custom objects, and interacting with them via kubectl commands.
