Cloud Native
Developing an Istio WasmPlugin with TinyGo
· ☕ 3 min read
wasme only supports up to Istio 1.9, while I am using Istio 1.14, so this post goes straight to tinygo for verification and learning. 1. Installing tinygo Requirements Go v1.18+ Install tinygo 1 2 brew tap tinygo-org/tools brew install tinygo Check the version 1 2 3 tinygo version tinygo version 0.

Multi-Cluster Applications Under Kubevela
· ☕ 10 min read
Kubevela is currently at version 1.1. We usually consider 1.x releases to be relatively stable and safe to try in production. Through continuous tracking and learning, I have also come to appreciate some of the things Kubevela does well. This is a summary document. 1. What Problem Kubevela Solves Aimed at platform developers Several roles need to be distinguished: development, operations, and operations development.

Gateway Service on Kubernetes: APISIX
· ☕ 6 min read
1. Comparing a Few Common Gateways Nginx, a reverse proxy with a modular design, written in C OpenResty, a web development platform built around Nginx that can parse and execute Lua scripts Kong, an application on top of OpenResty, an API gateway with API management and request proxying, using PostgreSQL for storage APISIX, which replaces Kong’s PostgreSQL with Etcd and is built on Nginx’s core libraries APISIX’s advantage lies in the API management and extensibility it provides, so the gateway no longer merely forwards traffic to services but can be configured and customized.

A Universal Pipeline Design
· ☕ 4 min read
1. Decoupling the Engine to Unlock Pipeline Capabilities When designing a system, we often face a dilemma. Do we contain the complexity and offer a single, easy-to-use capability to the outside; or do we release the complexity and return flexibility to the user? This is a real test of product

How Tekton Connects to Physical Machines for Builds
· ☕ 10 min read
1. Why Physical Build Machines Are Needed In the article How to Add a Remote macOS Physical Machine for Jenkins Pipeline Builds, I described how to add a physical build machine in Jenkins. This was not a requirement I made up on a whim — at the time, real ToB commercial customers were actually asking for a solution.