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.
Yanxuan revamped its DevOps toolchain—integrating a unified CMDB, layered monitoring, standardized CI/CD artifact flow, and the Overmind R&D efficiency platform—to streamline planning, coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring, thereby reducing collaboration costs, accelerating delivery, and maintaining quality as the organization scales to hundreds of engineers.
The article explains how enterprises can achieve business agility by adopting lean‑agile DevOps practices, using the DevOps Evolution Model and CI/CD pipeline modeling, and leveraging a Software Factory approach together with SAFe to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational efficiency.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Ansible, covering its purpose, key features, installation steps, SSH key setup, inventory configuration, core commands, essential modules, playbook syntax, handlers, role structures, and practical examples for automating Linux system administration.
This guide lists nine practical methods—including public mirrors, Cloudflare‑based proxies, raw file CDN, JsDelivr, Gitee fork import, and manual hosts file edits—to speed up GitHub browsing, cloning, and release downloads for developers facing slow connections.
This tutorial demonstrates how to integrate Trivy image security scanning into a GitLab CI/CD pipeline, covering tool selection, Dockerfile creation, pipeline configuration, scheduled scans, handling vulnerability reports, and strategies for failing builds based on severity levels.
This article introduces essential Ansible terminology such as control node, managed nodes, inventory, host files, modules, tasks, playbooks, and roles, and demonstrates basic commands for user creation, directory management, file deletion, and package handling on Linux hosts.
This article introduces Ansible as an open‑source automation framework, explains its key features, shows how to install it, configure the main settings and inventory, and demonstrates basic command‑line operations such as running modules and copying files across servers.
This article explains the DevOps methodology, the roles of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment, and how Agile development fits into modern software workflows, highlighting their goals, processes, and the relationships among these concepts for faster and more reliable software releases.
This guide introduces Portainer, a lightweight Docker management UI, showing how to install it as a container, connect to the local Docker engine, and explore its main features such as image listing, container control, resource monitoring, logs, and an integrated console, helping Docker users streamline operations.
This tutorial walks you through preparing the environment, installing Jenkins via Docker, configuring initial settings, integrating JDK, Maven, and Git, adding SSH servers and credentials, creating Maven jobs, and automating builds for Spring Boot applications on both GitHub and GitLab, including multi‑module project handling.
This guide presents six practical kubectl commands—including get, events, logs, yaml output, scaling, and port‑forwarding—along with detailed usage tips to help you quickly diagnose and resolve common issues in Kubernetes deployments.
China Agricultural Bank’s nine experts showcased how six major projects passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, demonstrating a domestic leading capability in reliable, repeatable, and efficient value delivery across large‑scale financial operations.
This article introduces JFrog Artifactory, explains its role as a universal artifact repository, outlines its key advantages such as multi‑format support, CI/CD integration, powerful search, lifecycle management, and provides practical guidance on repository naming, permissions, retention policies, and workflow best practices.
This article clarifies common misconceptions about Site Reliability Engineering, outlines the role’s responsibilities, presents the SRE Foundation course syllabus and target audience, and highlights the GOPS 2020 Global Operations Conference where the training is offered.
This article explains how Docker containers, built on Linux kernel virtualization, provide lightweight isolation, higher resource efficiency, rapid startup, consistent environments, easy migration, and simplified maintenance, and walks through installation, image creation, registry usage, and deployment on Huawei Cloud SWR.
This article demonstrates how to replace Helm with Kustomize for managing Kubernetes manifests, covering installation, base and overlay structures, strategic patches for environment variables, replica counts, secrets, ConfigMaps, and image version updates, and shows how to build and apply the final configuration.
Cloud native, coined by Matt Stine in 2013, blends DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, and agile infrastructure into a philosophy that redesigns applications for any public, private, or hybrid cloud, emphasizing container packaging, automated pipelines, and cultural shifts to boost scalability and delivery speed.
The article outlines five fundamental DevOps values—stakeholder feedback, continuous improvement beyond existing processes, breaking silos, cross‑organizational collaboration, and fostering a learning culture—explaining how they guide IT teams to adapt, innovate, and deliver quality outcomes in rapidly changing environments.
This article details ByteDance's journey in front‑end engineering, describing the evolution from manual deployments to a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, the creation of a dedicated front‑end deployment platform, and the ongoing development of a comprehensive front‑end R&D platform that integrates DevOps and SRE principles.
This guide explains why many IT budgets neglect quality assurance, presents data from the 2019‑2020 World Quality Report, and offers practical steps—ownership, prioritization, integration, automation, reporting, and documentation—to establish a robust QA workflow even with limited resources.
This article introduces the Hierarchical Namespace Controller (HNC) for Kubernetes, explains how to install and use it to create parent‑child namespaces, demonstrates role inheritance and two real‑world scenarios—self‑provisioning and application templating—while highlighting current limitations and community‑driven improvements.
This guide walks through installing Jenkins on CentOS 7, covering prerequisite JDK setup, repository configuration, service start‑up, troubleshooting common startup errors, firewall adjustments, and port configuration to get a functional CI/CD server.
The 2020 China API Ecosystem and Developer Survey Report, jointly released by Huawei Cloud, InfoQ Research Institute and partners, analyzes API adoption, developer demographics, tooling preferences, lifecycle management practices, and future trends, offering actionable insights for enterprises shaping their API strategies.
This article outlines the goals, common obstacles, iterative strategies, and concrete steps for constructing a DevOps platform, drawing on real‑world experiences from JD Digits to improve quality, efficiency, data insight, and overall development governance.
This article explains Google’s DevOps solution framework, focusing on the measurement pillar by detailing how to implement visual management boards, avoid typical mistakes, improve their effectiveness, and measure their impact against team goals, while referencing the DORA study that underpins the approach.
This comprehensive guide outlines the philosophical mindset, core competencies, technical knowledge, architectural principles, and essential tools that aspiring software architects should master to build robust, scalable, and secure systems in modern IT environments.
This guide walks you through Docker fundamentals, comparing containers to virtual machines, explaining core concepts, installing Docker, building a Dockerfile for a Vue project, creating and running an Nginx‑based image, publishing it to a registry, and sharing best practices for efficient container deployment.
This tutorial explains how to automate CI/CD by installing Jenkins on an AWS EC2 instance using Terraform, covering prerequisites, Bash installation scripts, plugin setup, a sample pipeline job, Terraform variable definitions, resource provisioning, and accessing the Jenkins web interface.
This guide explains how to integrate Jira, GitLab, and Jenkins to automatically create feature branches for new issues, generate release branches, and manage merge requests in a micro‑service architecture, detailing the required webhook configuration, pipeline setup, and shared Groovy library functions.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Portainer, covering its features, how to download the image, run it on a single Docker host, and manage Docker Swarm clusters with detailed commands, UI walkthroughs, and configuration steps.
This article explains how Alibaba’s shift from IaaS to a PaaS‑centric, cloud‑native approach changes application architecture, introduces new protocols, and accelerates delivery through standardized contracts, service mesh, lightweight containers, and automated lifecycle management.
At the 14th GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shenzhen, Zhejiang Mobile showcased its award‑winning DevOps implementation, explaining how standardized tools and processes boosted delivery efficiency, quality, and innovation while outlining future plans to deepen toolchain integration and empower broader digital transformation.
This article outlines a comprehensive DevOps operations framework, tracing its evolution from traditional ops to modern automation, detailing business standards, work policies, system integration, and best‑practice norms to achieve high SLA, low cost, and a one‑stop operational platform.
This guide walks through the complete deployment of Spinnaker on Kubernetes using Halyard, covering architecture analysis, preparation of Redis, MySQL and MinIO, container image retrieval, BOM preparation, Halyard configuration, external Redis and SQL database integration, authentication, canary analysis, monitoring, and additional settings.
This guide walks you through the Jenkinsclient command syntax, demonstrates how to list and control jobs, view server version, display plugins, queues, nodes, and credentials, and even shows the handy APP mode for a desktop‑like Jenkins experience.
Jenkinsclient is an open‑source, Python‑based, cross‑platform command‑line client that offers Docker‑style commands to manage multiple Jenkins instances, covering configuration, nodes, plugins, credentials, jobs, queues, executors, and builds, with simple installation via pip.
This comprehensive guide walks you through preparing hardware and network resources, setting up a private Git repository, installing Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, Baget, Harbor, and SonarQube, writing Dockerfiles and Helm charts, and configuring a Groovy Jenkinsfile to achieve a fully automated CI/CD workflow on a Kubernetes cluster.
This article explores the nuanced relationship between Agile and DevOps, clarifying common misconceptions, detailing how Scrum and continuous delivery intersect, and presenting the three‑layer DevOps model that helps teams integrate cultural, technical, and delivery practices for better collaboration and value delivery.
This article explains what OpenShift and Kubernetes are, compares their features—including architecture, rollout, web UI, image registry, CI/CD integration, and networking—and helps readers decide which container platform best fits their infrastructure and development needs.
This article provides a comprehensive walkthrough of Jenkins' declarative pipeline syntax, covering required sections, optional directives, practical code examples, parallel execution, input handling, post actions, and tips for effective CI/CD pipeline creation.
This article explains DevOps by describing how to create balanced workflows, reduce batch sizes to speed feedback, adopt trunk‑based development with continuous integration and delivery, and continuously identify and remove constraints such as long‑lived feature branches and slow environment provisioning.
This guide presents six practical kubectl commands—including get, events, logs, yaml output, scaling, and port‑forwarding—that help you quickly diagnose and resolve common deployment and pod issues in Kubernetes clusters.
This article surveys ten newly released Kubernetes‑related platforms and tools—from Docker Enterprise 3.1 to KubeCarrier—highlighting their key features, cloud‑native capabilities, and the impact they are expected to have on enterprise IT environments.
This article describes how HaoDF built an automated, visual CI/CD pipeline for its WeChat mini programs, replacing manual testing and release steps with a platform that handles environment configuration, QR‑code generation, code merging, and deployment while improving efficiency, reducing errors, and supporting future scaling.
This article explains the origins, core principles, and practical components of Cloud Native—including microservices, containerization, DevOps, continuous delivery, and cloud infrastructure—showing how they reshape development culture, organization, and technology adoption for modern software teams.
This article explains Google DevOps’s four capability categories, dives into DORA‑backed best practices for database change management—including communication, migration scripts, tooling, zero‑downtime strategies, common pitfalls, and key metrics—to help teams deliver changes safely and quickly.
This guide walks through deploying an Nginx sample app on Kubernetes, exposing Prometheus‑collected custom metrics, configuring a Prometheus adapter, and creating a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler that scales the deployment based on request‑per‑second metrics.
Sampler is a lightweight tool that runs shell commands, visualizes their output, and can trigger alerts; configured via simple YAML, it works on macOS, Linux and Windows, supports various components such as runcharts, sparklines, gauges, and interactive shells for monitoring databases, queues and system metrics.
This article explains Google DevOps' four capability categories, focuses on test data management for automated testing, outlines core principles, common pitfalls, improvement techniques, and metrics to measure effectiveness, helping teams build reliable, scalable CI pipelines.
This guide explains Google’s DevOps solution built on DORA research, outlines the four DevOps capability categories, and provides detailed steps, best practices, common pitfalls, improvement methods, and measurement techniques for implementing reliable, automated software deployments.
Meituan Waimai’s mobile architecture progressed from early componentization through platformization and a custom React‑Native hybrid to a containerized system that unifies Android and iOS via SDKs, MRN and Titans containers, enabling dynamic updates, modular development, and massive traffic handling while demanding enhanced monitoring and release governance.
DataOps, an Agile‑derived methodology that extends DevOps principles to data analytics, emphasizes automation, collaboration, and continuous delivery to accelerate and improve data processing, quality, and business insight, while outlining its benefits, relationship to Agile/DevOps, and practical steps for adoption.
This article introduces a tutorial video that demonstrates how to install and run Jenkins, the open‑source CI/CD platform, inside an Apache Tomcat servlet container on a Windows operating system, and provides links to related cloud‑native community resources and further Jenkins learning materials.
This article explains how Nexus Repository can serve as a centralized Docker and Helm registry for Kubernetes deployments, detailing repository types, configuration steps, and practical code examples for creating, securing, and testing a private container image registry.
This article explains how Docker addresses environment‑configuration challenges, compares container technology with virtual machines, and outlines Docker’s advantages such as fast startup, low resource usage, image layering, isolation, rapid rollback, and lower deployment and management costs, while also discussing its remaining limitations.
An in‑depth interview with Zhejiang Mobile’s IT deputy general manager reveals how their Bee Cloud DevOps platform achieved excellent ratings in the national DevOps system‑and‑tool assessment, boosting automation, delivery speed, and overall operational efficiency.
This article details Saike Mobility's successful Level‑3 DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, shares insights from an interview with their operations director, and explains the national DevOps capability maturity model that is shaping engineering efficiency across Chinese tech enterprises.
The 2020 GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shenzhen showcased a series of high‑impact DevOps talks, standards releases, enterprise assessments, and collaborative initiatives that highlighted the evolving landscape of cloud, data, and operational excellence across leading Chinese tech organizations.
This article reports on Tencent’s Gongfeng version‑control system receiving top‑level DevOps standard assessment at the 14th GOPS Global Operations Conference, includes an interview with the system’s director about its design, deployment challenges, future plans, and the broader Chinese DevOps standards initiative.
This guide presents nine practical methods to accelerate GitHub access—including mirror sites, Cloudflare Workers proxies, raw file CDN replacements, JsDelivr usage, Gitee fork transfers, and manual hosts file edits—complete with URLs, step‑by‑step instructions, and illustrative screenshots.
China Telecom’s System Integration subsidiary’s ‘BiYi’ collaborative development platform recently passed the inaugural DevOps system and tool standards assessment by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, showcasing how standardized, end‑to‑end toolchains and continuous integration pipelines can boost efficiency, quality, and industry leadership in large‑scale IT operations.
The article recounts Zhongyuan Bank’s successful DevOps platform evaluation at the 14th GOPS Global Operations Conference, detailing the bank’s digital transformation, the platform’s architecture, and insights from a Q&A with senior technical leaders on standards, toolchains, and future DevOps directions.
Ping An Bank’s Starlink DevOps platform, recognized by China’s CAICT as a first‑batch certified system‑and‑tool solution, showcases how standardized toolchains, end‑to‑end value streams, and data‑driven metrics can dramatically boost development speed, quality, and operational efficiency in the financial sector.
This guide compiles multiple free methods—including mirror sites, Cloudflare Workers proxies, raw file CDNs, Chrome extensions, Gitee imports, and hosts file modifications—to dramatically speed up GitHub cloning, downloading releases, and accessing raw files for developers worldwide.
This guide explains the concepts of DevOps, SecOps, and DevSecOps, outlines their respective benefits, and helps organizations decide which security‑focused operational model best fits their needs by comparing their focus on integration, automation, and collaboration across development, operations, and security teams.
This article reviews common industry Git workflows such as Git Flow, GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow, Trunk‑based Flow and Aone Flow, analyzes Bytedance's multi‑environment deployment architecture, and presents concrete single‑, double‑ and triple‑branch practices together with recommendations for effective R&D process management.
This article explores how to classify, model, and store R&D efficiency metrics—distinguishing human‑oriented from process‑oriented measures, illustrating a meta‑model of value flow, advocating graph databases for flexible storage, and sharing expert insights for proactive risk control.
This article explains the components, tools, and stages of software delivery pipelines—including version control, continuous integration, continuous delivery, blue/green and canary deployments—while highlighting their automation benefits and offering resources for further learning.
This article explores how Nginx’s high‑performance, event‑driven architecture underpins modern DevOps practices, detailing its roles in web hosting, proxying, caching, API gateways, dynamic routing with Lua/Redis, emergency failover designs, data‑driven operations, and micro‑service integration.
This article analyzes Beike's massive real‑estate ecosystem, detailing the intricate business flows, technical architecture, and quality‑assurance challenges, and explains how a suite of internal platforms—KeTest, KeOnes, sosotest, KeDiff, KePTS, and KeMTC—are engineered to deliver high‑performance, highly available services at scale.
This article explains why fast, high‑quality delivery demands test automation, defines what a test automation framework is, outlines its various types and benefits, and provides concise comparisons of popular frameworks such as Robot Framework, WebdriverIO, Citrus, Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Gauge, Carina and FunTester.
This article examines seven typical misconceptions in software development—from focusing on tasks instead of demand to favoring batch releases over continuous delivery—and offers practical guidance on improving flow efficiency, cross‑functional collaboration, code quality, and automated testing.
The article outlines twenty‑four key capabilities across continuous delivery, architecture, product and process, lean management, and culture that research shows drive superior software delivery performance and organizational outcomes.
This article introduces the micro‑frontend concept, outlines its characteristics and suitable scenarios, and provides a detailed Vue‑based implementation covering runtime, deployment, development modes, code snippets, reuse layers, and best‑practice recommendations for large‑scale front‑end projects.
GitHub CLI 1.0, now officially released, lets developers manage repositories, pull requests, and issues directly from the terminal with simple commands, offers cross‑platform installation options, and supports custom aliases and enterprise connections for faster, scriptable workflows.
This article explains Netflix's Spinnaker platform, detailing its microservice architecture, code repository management, GitHub Actions continuous integration workflow, versioned deployment configuration, and practical steps for deploying and rolling back Spinnaker in multi‑cloud environments.
This guide walks you through creating and using a one‑click installation package that sets up essential development services—MySQL, Nginx, JDK, Redis, RabbitMQ, and a SpringBoot jar—on Ubuntu 16.x, detailing directory structure, required prerequisites, individual start/stop scripts, and customization options for small‑scale deployments.
Noah is a test environment governance platform that uses infrastructure‑as‑code principles, resource pooling, soft routing, and containerization to automate the creation, management, and teardown of complex testing environments, dramatically improving developer productivity and reducing operational costs.
This guide explains how to configure a Docker‑in‑Docker GitLab Runner to pull images from a private container registry by setting the DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG variable, covering both job‑level and runner‑level methods, credential generation, and example runner registration commands.
This article explores how YAML files serve as the pivotal interface for managing Kubernetes resources, detailing their role in defining storage, compute, network, and application configurations, and demonstrating practical deployment, service, and ingress creation to streamline operations and enhance platform stability.
Discover a curated list of ten essential books covering Site Reliability Engineering, performance tuning, AI‑ops, security, DevOps practices, Jenkins pipelines, and the evolution of modern operations, each offering practical insights and real‑world examples to elevate your technical expertise.
The September 7, 2020 technical salon hosted by Qunar's infrastructure R&D team, in collaboration with Keep, gathered over 20 engineering experts to discuss DevOps continuous delivery, test environment management platforms such as Noah, Portal, MPortal, and Thanos, and share practical experiences and architectural choices.
The article explains what cloud‑native applications are, contrasts them with traditional software, outlines four core cloud‑native development principles, and details a six‑step process—including DevOps culture, lightweight servers, PaaS, framework selection, automation, and modular architecture—to accelerate building and deploying cloud‑native solutions.
This article outlines the typical challenges faced during a DevOps transformation—such as resistance to change, rushed feature delivery, technical debt, team structure, skill gaps, automation, environment provisioning, and cross‑team collaboration—and explains the practical solutions VMware applied to achieve faster, higher‑quality releases.
This article examines ten common Kubernetes deployment anti‑patterns—from embedding configuration inside Docker images to using the latest tag in production—and offers practical recommendations such as externalizing configs with ConfigMaps, employing Helm or Kustomize, setting resource limits, and implementing proper monitoring and rollout strategies.
The article outlines how open x86 hardware, solid‑state storage, high‑speed networking, resource pools and containers form the foundation for modern IT architecture, while national emphasis on innovation and security elevates open‑source software, driving a shift toward layered, service‑oriented, microservice‑centric systems integrated with DevOps pipelines.
Discover a comprehensive overview of common programming positions—from full‑stack software engineers to data scientists, DevOps, and specialized domain experts—highlighting ideal personality traits, responsibilities, and how aligning your interests and strengths with these roles can lead to a fulfilling tech career.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step guide to setting up GitLab CI/CD pipelines, configuring .gitlab-ci.yml files, registering Docker‑based GitLab Runners, and deploying applications via SSH, covering stages, jobs, and practical code examples for DevOps practitioners.
This article explains how to use Git and Huawei Cloud DevCloud to implement development, test, and production branch strategies, manage permissions with protected branches, handle merge conflicts, and leverage merge requests and code reviews to improve DevOps efficiency.
iQIYI’s Test Environment Management Platform centralizes topology and deployment scripts, automates on‑demand environment provisioning, and isolates QA resources, cutting deployment time from up to 60 minutes to an average of four minutes, boosting success rates above 95 % while supporting thousands of daily deployments across hundreds of applications.
The team introduced an Angular‑style Git commit‑message standard—type(scope): subject in Chinese—and built a webhook‑based monitoring service that validates pushes, alerts violations, tracks diff size and deletions, stores metrics, and visualizes compliance, improving traceability, readability, and automated changelog generation.
Grafana’s new Redis Data Source plugin lets DevOps engineers and DBAs seamlessly connect to Redis instances—whether open‑source, Enterprise, or Cloud—visualize time‑series and core data types, run management commands, and build interactive dashboards using Grafana’s transformations and built‑in panels.
This article presents a practical, multi‑stage approach for improving software reliability in Kubernetes‑based microservice environments, covering static analysis, testing pyramids, CI/CD observability, performance testing, deployment strategies, and feedback loops to help engineering teams deliver faster, higher‑quality releases.
This article explains the evolution of DevOps, the challenges of building a Kubernetes‑based DevOps platform, and how the Open Application Model (OAM) provides a layered, component‑and‑trait architecture that separates concerns, enhances extensibility, and enables next‑generation cloud‑native DevOps solutions.
This article explains why small Docker images matter, demonstrates the traditional Dockerfile approach, introduces the Builder Pattern with its drawbacks, and then shows how Docker's multi‑stage build feature can produce equally small images with far less complexity, complete with code examples.
This article outlines a practical four‑step process—Define, Scope, Experiment, Analyze—to help DevOps engineers prioritize automation tasks, assess pain points, and align improvements with business value, offering actionable guidance for effective pipeline and workflow optimization.
Lyft open‑sourced Clutch, a scalable UI and API platform that unifies infrastructure tooling with built‑in security, authorization, and observability, offering a single binary Go backend and plug‑in React frontend to simplify operations, reduce MTTR, and improve developer experience across large cloud‑native environments.
This article details a month‑long DevOps case study conducted by the IDCF team on traditional banking, describing the four guiding principles, the six‑stage workflow from team formation to retrospection, the research findings across major Chinese banks, and the resulting best‑case award and future digital‑transformation discussions.
This guide walks you through creating a Tencent Cloud Elasticsearch cluster, configuring secure write‑only Beats roles, initializing Beats with setup commands, deploying Beats via a scripted workflow, and troubleshooting common issues to achieve reliable, scalable production monitoring.
