The article outlines twenty‑four essential capabilities—spanning continuous delivery, architecture, product and process, lean management, and culture—that research shows drive high performance in software delivery and organizational outcomes.
This article explains what Kubernetes is, its declarative nature, key features, master‑slave architecture, essential components such as etcd, API server, controller manager, scheduler, kubelet, and kube‑proxy, and how they work together to enable scalable, resilient cloud‑native applications.
This article provides an in‑depth overview of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for DevOps, explaining its definition, business advantages, implementation approaches, common challenges with solutions, practical use cases, and a comparison of leading tools such as CloudFormation, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, and Chef.
This article provides a comprehensive list of 64 video lessons covering enterprise‑level Kubernetes topics, including cluster architecture, persistent storage, Pods, Controllers, Deployments, Services, Ingress, Helm, security, monitoring, high‑availability setup, and application deployment, serving as a detailed curriculum for mastering Kubernetes.
This article traces the evolution of software development practices from the linear Waterfall model through Agile iterations to the integrated DevOps culture, highlighting each approach's principles, advantages, and key differences for modern engineering teams.
Zhongtai Securities’ BeeBird Efficiency Platform, recognized by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology for excellence in DevOps system and tool standards, showcases how standardized processes, continuous delivery, DevSecOps integration and automated testing dramatically improve release speed, safety, and cost efficiency in a large financial institution.
This article examines post‑2022 DevOps trends—including GitOps, AIOps/MLOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, DataOps, chaos engineering, SRE, hybrid deployment, automation, IaC, serverless, cloud‑native, microservices, containerization, Kubernetes, edge computing, data observability, and platform engineering—illustrating each with real‑world case studies that show measurable improvements in speed, reliability, cost, and scalability.
After the 2015 Yeezy launch caused a massive traffic surge that crashed Adidas' website, the engineering team adopted cloud‑native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices, raising their release cadence from a six‑week cycle to five deployments per day.
This article provides a comprehensive list of 64 video lessons covering enterprise‑grade Kubernetes topics, including cluster architecture, core concepts such as Pods, Controllers, Deployments, Services, Ingress, persistent storage, security, Helm, high‑availability setup, monitoring, and practical deployment workflows for Java applications.
This article explains why Docker containers stop running by detailing how to view exit codes, describing the most common exit codes such as 0, 1, 137, 139, and 143, and clarifying the actions that cause each code, helping developers troubleshoot container failures.
The open‑source DevOps tool Jenkins now requires Java 11 as a minimum runtime from version 2.357 onward, explains the migration history from Java 8, outlines benefits of newer Java versions, and recommends adopting Java 17 for better performance, security, and developer attraction.
This article explains the fundamentals of scalable CI/CD pipelines, covering their definition, four core stages, key attributes for a high‑quality pipeline, and multiple practical examples across microservices, containerized, serverless, and cloud‑based environments.
The 2022 inaugural XOps Industry Ecosystem Summit in Beijing gathered over six hundred thousand viewers to explore digital governance, DevOps, FinOps, AIOps and related standards, featuring keynote speeches, forum discussions, assessment result releases, and the launch of the Digital Governance Alliance and FinOps alliance.
This article details how Hai Fa Bao Cheng's "Jing Yuan Bao" management platform passed the Level‑3 DevOps continuous delivery assessment, showcasing the practical benefits, metrics improvements, and strategic insights of adopting standardized DevOps practices for digital transformation in the financing leasing industry.
Zhaotai Securities' self‑developed "Bee‑Bird Performance Platform" passed the China Information and Communication Research Institute's DevOps system and tool standards evaluation, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, continuous delivery pipelines, and DevSecOps integration dramatically improve efficiency, safety, and digital transformation in the financial sector.
Learn how to securely self‑host a GitLab instance on an Ubuntu server using Docker, covering dependency installation, SSH port configuration, Docker volume setup, compose file creation, container deployment, and accessing the web interface, with alternative deployment methods for troubleshooting.
On July 28, 2022, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology announced that Zhongyuan Bank's R&D Efficiency Insight Platform passed the DevOps General Efficiency Measurement Model assessment at the industry promotion level, highlighting the bank's leading DevOps practices, detailed interview insights, and future development plans.
Zhejiang Commercial Bank’s Financial Technology team discusses how their industry‑first DevOps continuous‑delivery platform earned a Level‑3 assessment from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, highlighting the standards, tools, metrics, challenges, and future plans that propelled their supply‑chain finance service platform to a leading position in digital transformation.
At the 2022 XOps Industry Ecosystem Summit in Beijing, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology unveiled the "2022 XOps Top Ten Keywords", highlighting trends such as DevOps, DevSecOps, CO‑DevOps, Continuous Testing, R&D efficiency metrics, AIOps, BizDevOps, FinOps, ArchOps and Digital Governance that are driving the evolution of modern IT operations.
The article reports on the 2022 XOps Industry Ecosystem Summit hosted by CAICT, announces the results of multiple DevOps and AIOps capability maturity model assessments across dozens of leading enterprises, explains the standards' origins and scope, and provides contact details for further evaluation inquiries.
This article details how Agricultural Bank's fintech subsidiary, Nongyin Jinke, passed the 2022 CAICT DevOps continuous delivery and toolchain assessments at level 3, sharing interview insights on their platform, pipeline, challenges, results, and future DevOps plans.
This guide explains how to manually create Jenkins JNLP agents on a Kubernetes cluster, covering both static Deployment‑based agents and dynamic agents using the Kubernetes plugin, with detailed YAML definitions, pipeline scripts, and supporting helper functions for a complete CI/CD workflow.
This guide explains how to use Zadig’s cloud‑native continuous delivery platform to deploy a sample vm‑microservice‑demo project, covering two connection methods—direct host deployment and jump‑box (bastion) deployment—including host configuration, project and service setup, build and deployment scripts, and workflow automation.
This article outlines nine essential DevOps best practices—from fostering a collaborative, blameless culture and adopting CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and IaC, while also highlighting common anti‑patterns such as isolated DevOps teams, hero reliance, and unchecked tool sprawl.
In the digital age, software development itself must be digitized, using the Flow Framework's five flow metrics to gain end‑to‑end visibility, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve delivery efficiency across value streams.
This article provides a comprehensive tutorial on preparing the environment, installing DataX and DataX‑web, configuring MySQL, JDK, Maven, and Python, deploying the services on Linux, and using the web UI to create data sources, build JSON jobs, monitor execution, and manage users.
This article compares Agile and DevOps, outlining their core values, processes, team structures, planning approaches, and how they can be combined to improve software development productivity and delivery speed.
This article details Huolala's journey from a fragmented monitoring stack to a unified, AI‑enhanced observability platform, covering AIOps concepts, the design of a comprehensive monitoring framework, concrete implementation of metrics, tracing, logging, alerting, and lessons learned for large‑scale operations.
The author recounts a chaotic typical day for Chinese operations engineers, then proposes a balanced schedule that prioritizes urgent firefighting tasks while dedicating most time to proactive monitoring, performance tuning, tool development, and continuous learning for long‑term system stability.
This talk walks through Docker’s appeal, its rise to popularity, the underlying container technology history, core architecture, networking, namespaces, cgroups, and common commands, illustrating how containers streamline deployment compared to traditional VMs and why Docker remains pivotal in cloud-native environments.
The article details how Zendesk modernized its monolithic Rails architecture by adopting Docker, microservices, and Kubernetes, building internal tools like ZDI and Samson, and achieving faster deployments, automated scaling, and improved resilience, with about 70% of its applications now running on Kubernetes.
Monitoring as Code (MaC) extends the “everything‑as‑code” philosophy to observability, enabling DevOps teams to embed monitoring early in the development pipeline, achieve continuous insight, automate remediation, and improve software quality and delivery speed.
This tutorial walks through migrating a two‑node Kubernetes cluster (master and worker) from Docker to containerd on CentOS 7, covering environment setup, node draining, Docker removal, containerd installation and configuration, kubelet adjustments, uncordoning, and verification of the new container runtime.
This comprehensive guide explores the origins, evolution, and classification of software testing, outlines automation tools and conditions, discusses agile and DevOps integration, and provides practical step‑by‑step best practices for continuous testing using GitLab in early‑stage companies.
This guide explains why and how to assess the health of npm dependencies, outlines a step‑by‑step upgrade process, highlights tools like npm outdated, npm audit, depcheck, and offers practical advice on changelog review, lock‑file management, and distinguishing dependencies from devDependencies.
This guide explains Dockerfile fundamentals, walks through each core instruction with practical examples, demonstrates building images for simple CentOS containers, SpringBoot applications, and shows how to tag, push, and pull images from a registry, providing clear step‑by‑step commands and explanations.
This article explains the concepts of DevOps, SecOps, and DevSecOps, outlines their core principles and benefits, compares their focus on collaboration, automation, and security, and provides guidance on selecting the most suitable approach for organizations seeking integrated development, operations, and security practices.
Microsoft’s new Visual Studio Code Server and its CLI let developers install the backend service anywhere—from local machines to cloud VMs—and securely access it via VS Code for the Web without configuring SSH or HTTPS, though the feature is currently in private preview and requires a sign‑up request.
This guide explains product and engineering versioning, release tagging, branch naming conventions, and a step‑by‑step GitHub Flow workflow—including CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment practices—to help teams standardize release management and improve development efficiency.
Continuous delivery ensures rapid, safe code deployment by automating testing and mirroring production environments, outlining its concept, goals, principles, prerequisites, mandatory standards, recommended practices, and key metrics to achieve frequent, stable product releases.
This guide defines technical debt, outlines its classification into vulnerabilities, bugs, and code smells, and presents clear objectives, principles, standards, evaluation rules, recommended practices, and metrics to visualize, assess, and systematically reduce debt, thereby improving project delivery efficiency.
This guide explains the concept of Continuous Integration, its benefits for early error detection and quality improvement, outlines core principles, detailed workflow standards, recommended practices, daily development steps, and key metrics to monitor CI effectiveness.
Jenkins announced that starting with version 2.357 and the upcoming September LTS release, the CI/CD platform will require Java 11, outlining the migration history from Java 8, the benefits of newer runtimes, and the team’s recommendation to adopt Java 17 for better performance and security.
This tutorial explains how to automatically create and delete Jenkins agent pods on a Kubernetes cluster for each pipeline run by storing Groovy scripts in a shared library, loading them with ScriptConsole, and invoking the Kubernetes API through Jenkins.
The article outlines the nine core competencies—network expertise, Linux/Unix knowledge, cloud computing, CI/CD pipelines, QA automation, security engineering, DevOps, incident management, and post‑incident review—that enable SREs to ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of complex distributed systems.
Building a successful software company hinges on delivering valuable software quickly, and this article explains how we adopted Drone CI as the core of our continuous delivery pipeline—detailing its open‑source nature, Docker‑based architecture, service support, plugin ecosystem, testing integration, and artifact management.
The case study describes how LifeMiles migrated its legacy monolithic system to AWS and adopted Kubernetes for container orchestration, achieving a 50% reduction in infrastructure costs, a three‑fold increase in deployment frequency, and a doubling of usable resources while dramatically shortening time‑to‑market.
The article analyzes how the rise of software‑defined vehicles and the rapid development of cloud‑native and AI technologies are reshaping the automotive sector, outlining the IT challenges car makers face, the benefits of cloud‑native adoption, practical migration steps, and security considerations for a successful digital transformation.
This article demonstrates how to programmatically create Jenkins agent nodes on demand with Groovy scripts, covering import statements, node configuration, adding the node to Jenkins, and retrieving node details for further automation in a CI/CD pipeline.
The June 25 ByteDance‑ByteDance Dev Better technical salon, co‑hosted with Huatai Securities, presented a series of front‑end engineering talks covering serverless web development, modern.js engineering, DevOps adoption, and practical Q&A, offering valuable insights and best‑practice recommendations for web developers.
This article presents a comprehensive set of Kubernetes best practices covering namespace usage, health probes, autoscaling, resource requests, workload controllers, multi‑node clusters, RBAC, managed services, version upgrades, monitoring, GitOps, image optimization, labeling, network policies, and firewalls to help engineers design, operate, and maintain robust cloud‑native environments.
This article explains the DevOps methodology in the context of AWS, defines its relationship to cloud operations, and introduces three core AWS CI/CD services—CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild—detailing their features and benefits for accelerating software delivery.
This article explains what technical debt is, why it arises, and how adopting DevOps practices such as cross‑functional teams, automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, containerization, and API‑centric design can identify, track, and repay technical debt to improve system reliability and agility.
This article explains what DevSecOps is, why traditional security approaches no longer suffice in fast‑paced software delivery, outlines its key advantages such as risk control and cost reduction, and provides detailed guidance on organizational, process, and technology practices—including tool recommendations and CI/CD pipeline integration—to embed security throughout the software lifecycle.
This tutorial demonstrates how to set up automated Docker image vulnerability scanning with Trivy, embed the scan into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, handle severity thresholds, schedule recurring scans, and remediate findings by adjusting the Dockerfile, providing a practical DevOps security workflow.
This guide explains how to create and configure Jenkins multibranch pipelines for CI/CD, covering fundamentals, PR‑based branch discovery, a sample Jenkinsfile with conditional stages, step‑by‑step Jenkins UI setup, webhook integration with GitHub, testing procedures, and common troubleshooting tips.
This article introduces Ansible as a model‑driven configuration manager, explains its basic architecture and working principles, and provides detailed usage of its seven core commands with practical code examples for automation and DevOps tasks.
The ByteDance Dev Better technical salon brought together ByteDance and Huatai Securities front‑end teams to share practical experiences on serverless‑based web development, modern build tools, DevOps adoption, and front‑end efficiency improvements, followed by a detailed Q&A session.
Drawing from three and a half years of DevOps experience, this guide compiles critical operational practices—ranging from cautious command execution and strict change control to robust backup, security hardening, continuous monitoring, performance tuning, and a disciplined mindset—to help engineers avoid costly outages and data loss.
The article explains the growing importance of developer self‑service platforms in modern cloud‑native environments, describing their benefits, operational models, and how they empower developers to manage infrastructure and application delivery efficiently.
This article explains Baidu App’s DevOps workflow challenges, introduces the Pipeline as Code concept, compares Jenkins Pipeline and GitHub Actions DSLs, and details the design of Tekes Actions, its custom runner, and operational features such as pause/unpause and WebAPI integration.
Vivo’s rapid migration to Kubernetes across multiple data centers required a secure, efficient, and reliable way to manage thousands of nodes, leading them to develop a custom k8s‑operator that streamlines cluster deployment, CI testing, declarative APIs, and automated repair for large‑scale cloud‑native environments.
The article uses a humorous story about two development teams manipulating KLOC defect rates to illustrate Goodhart's law and the McNamara fallacy, then presents a comprehensive set of software quality metrics and guidelines for selecting meaningful measurements that truly improve product quality.
The article presents a comprehensive overview of DevOps quality management, explaining the concepts of left‑shift and right‑shift testing, the role of automation, exploratory testing, and chaos engineering, and offers practical guidance for integrating testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
This article outlines how the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's software development center redesigned its development‑testing environment operations—highlighting key characteristics, practical governance measures, current challenges, and strategic improvements to boost efficiency, automation, and resource utilization.
This article explains how to use Vagrant and VirtualBox to create a reproducible development and testing environment for the Kube-OVN Kubernetes CNI project, including Vagrantfile configuration, provisioning scripts for Docker, Kubernetes tools, Go, and steps to compile, test, and run Kube-OVN with Kind clusters.
Industry experts from Zhejiang Mobile, Bilibili, and Xiaomi discuss how SRE has evolved in the cloud‑native era, sharing concrete frameworks, observability practices, and cost‑focused platforms while emphasizing stability, metrics, on‑call processes, and the need to adapt Google’s model to real‑world product and operational contexts.
This article compiles a comprehensive list of over a hundred Linux, networking, load‑balancing, database, caching, monitoring, container and cloud‑native interview questions, providing candidates with essential knowledge to ace system‑administration and DevOps job interviews.
This article details how Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) tackled rapid product demand and limited R&D resources by designing a unified, enterprise‑level DevOps platform that streamlines continuous integration, delivery, and deployment, improves collaboration, and supports future digital transformation initiatives.
This article explains the differences between deployment and release, defines continuous deployment, and details various deployment and release strategies such as blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray release, and A/B testing, including technical implementations like feature toggles, feature branches, and abstract branches, with real‑world examples from Facebook.
Chen Yang, a senior DevOps engineer at Bilibili, brings over a decade of database expertise from multinational IT firms and major internet companies, having designed trillion‑scale architectures for billion‑user services, specialized in MySQL, automated and cloud‑native database operations, and holds several patented innovations.
This article examines the rise of low‑code platforms, the challenges of integrating ProCode and LowCode workflows, proposes ideal and lightweight hybrid development pipelines, and outlines a unified front‑end strategy that reduces complexity while maintaining flexibility across branches and releases.
This article describes how ShouQianBa standardized its API gateway stack by adopting Apache APISIX, detailing the reasons for selection, custom plugin development, logging enhancements, a bespoke management platform, version‑upgrade strategy, deployment model, and the resulting improvements in reliability and developer productivity.
This article explains how to create a nested Kubernetes cluster (VMLC) inside a pod using SmartIDE, covering the motivations, required tools, Azure AKS setup, sysbox runtime installation, VMLC deployment, VS Code WebIDE and hybrid SSH access, building and deploying a Dapr sample, and clean‑up procedures.
This article examines the rapid growth of DevOps integrated platforms in China, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of existing tools, outlines essential capabilities for an enterprise DevOps platform, and proposes a future architecture centered on lightweight IDE integration, containerized services, and comprehensive measurement.
This article summarizes Professor Niu Xiaoling’s GNSEC 2022 keynote, outlining the XOps framework and its five pillars—XOps, DevOps research and operational efficiency metrics, AIOps, BizDevOps, and FinOps—while detailing their drivers, maturity models, implementation examples, and the role of standards in guiding enterprises toward intelligent, cost‑effective, and business‑value‑focused software delivery.
This article details how Latin America’s largest fintech bank Nubank adopted Kubernetes to overcome immutable‑infrastructure challenges, accelerate deployments, improve developer experience, and achieve roughly a 30% increase in cost efficiency while scaling its services across regions.
Zadig Toolkit, a VS Code extension from KodeRover, lets developers view and manage Zadig environments, restart services, switch images, debug remotely, and sync code without committing or building images, providing step‑by‑step guidance on installation, configuration, remote debugging, and service inspection.
This comprehensive guide walks you through installing, configuring, and upgrading the cloud‑native continuous delivery platform Zadig—including MySQL setup, Helm chart deployment, GitLab integration, environment and pipeline management, and optional SonarQube code scanning—providing practical commands and screenshots for end‑to‑end implementation.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide to Docker, covering its core concepts, differences from virtual machines, installation methods, Dockerfile syntax, building and running a Vue.js application in a container, publishing images, and recommended best‑practice tips for containerization.
This comprehensive guide clarifies the differences between deployment and release, explores continuous deployment concepts, details various deployment and release strategies such as blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray, and A/B testing, and examines supporting technologies like feature toggles and branch‑by‑abstraction, illustrated with a Facebook case study.
This comprehensive tutorial walks readers through Docker fundamentals, compares virtual machines with containers, explains core Docker concepts, demonstrates installation on macOS, shows how to build and run a Docker image for a Vue project, and provides best‑practice tips for containerized deployments.
This article explains the importance of tool platforms for DevOps, outlines the DevOps Capability Maturity Model's system and tool technical requirements—covering project management, work item management, planning, documentation, knowledge, team collaboration, metrics, and portfolio management—and provides guidance on selecting suitable tools.
This article introduces the Deploy Dashboard plugin for Jenkins, explains how to visualize deployment status across environments, shows step‑by‑step instructions for adding versions, creating the dashboard view, adding deployment buttons, and provides pipeline code examples for seamless CI/CD integration.
This guide explains why Kubernetes dropped dockershim, clarifies OCI and CRI standards, compares Docker, containerd and cri‑o runtimes, and provides a step‑by‑step procedure—including node draining, Docker removal, kernel tuning, cri‑o installation, kubelet reconfiguration, and verification—to successfully migrate a cluster from Docker to cri‑o before upgrading to version 1.24.
After a year of cross‑BU experimentation, the Tianji precision testing platform was built to centralize coverage data, automate incremental analysis, and provide actionable insights, resulting in higher test coverage, faster release gating, and measurable productivity gains for both developers and QA teams.
The article explains why and how to store external libraries and tools in a private artifact repository, isolate builds from the internet, and verify build stability by testing offline pipelines, emphasizing the importance of managing dependencies for reliable DevOps processes.
The article explains how technical professionals promoted to management can apply quantitative measurement and systematic optimization—illustrated with an image‑recognition service case and a DevOps defect‑resolution workflow—to improve resource utilization, reduce bottlenecks, and align R&D processes with lean, value‑stream principles.
This article outlines essential Kubernetes security principles based on the 4C model, discusses best practices for clusters, containers, and code, and reviews several open‑source tools such as Kubescape, kube‑bench, Terrascan, kube‑hunter, and Anchore for assessing and improving cluster security.
This cheat sheet provides a concise reference of essential Git commands—including configuration, repository creation, staging, committing, branching, remote handling, and restoration—along with brief explanations and code examples for developers to quickly perform version‑control tasks.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservice architecture, covering its definition, history, differences from monolithic development, key characteristics, comparison with SOA, practical implementation steps, common design patterns, advantages and disadvantages, and essential considerations for successful adoption.
This tutorial explains how to create and configure a Jenkins shared library, organize its directory structure, set it up in Jenkins global settings, and reference it from a Jenkinsfile to simplify pipeline management across multiple projects.
This article explains how Jenkins Pipeline as Code replaces manual freestyle job configurations with version‑controlled code, streamlining bulk modifications, improving consistency across multiple projects, and highlighting best practices for managing complex Jenkinsfile setups.
This article explains what test reports are, outlines their essential components and common types, discusses the challenges of handling large and fast‑moving test data in modern agile and DevOps environments, and describes how continuous testing and dashboards can improve software release decisions.
This article shares the author’s experience and reflections on software architecture, covering its definition, iterative evolution, closed‑loop feedback design, microservice adoption, the impact of organizational culture, and the mindset and soft skills required of modern architects.
This comprehensive guide explains Docker's core concepts, advantages over traditional VMs, installation steps, essential commands, Dockerfile instructions, image management, storage volumes, and networking modes, providing practical examples and code snippets for effective container deployment on Linux systems.
This article explains how developers and operators should prepare a Go‑based service for Kubernetes by implementing health‑check endpoints, graceful shutdown handling, metrics exposure, tracing integration, standardized logging, and operational best practices such as stateless design, high availability, self‑healing, and HTTPS configuration.
The article explains how quantifying and measuring both technical systems and organizational processes can reveal inefficiencies, using a concrete image‑processing service example to illustrate how workflow analysis, metric collection, and architectural redesign lead to resource savings and how the same principles apply to DevOps and R&D management.
This article reviews how leading Chinese telecom operators adopted the nationally‑backed DevOps Capability Maturity Model to assess and improve their IT performance, detailing project counts, specific case studies, measurable gains, and the model’s broader industry impact.
This article reviews how leading Chinese enterprises such as Tencent, Quark, and Baoxin Software applied the CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing their assessment results, continuous delivery improvements, and security‑risk achievements to enhance IT performance and support digital transformation.
