Kubernetes cert-manager Tutorial: How to Set Up Custom CA

Posted on June 12, 2026June 14, 2026 by Marco Antonio Carcano

Kubernetes cert-manager Tutorial: How to Set Up Custom CA post provides a quick overview of using cert-manager on Kubernetes, showing how to easily set up a CA with the simple CA Issuer.

Certificate management is not just a security sensitive task dealing with issuing security sensitive objects: it is a cumbersome activity including taking care of handling the reissuing of expiring certificates before they reach their end of life, delivering them to the consuming services.

In Kubernetes cert-manager Tutorial: How to Set Up Custom CA post we discuss how to simplify this process using cert-manager, automating the issuing and renewal of issued certificates.

Kubernetes Backup – perform Gitea backup on S3 with MinIO

Posted on December 8, 2025 by Marco Antonio Carcano

When dealing with Kubernetes, backing up an application's data is not as straightforward as when the application is installed directly on your system. Due to its design, Kubernetes orchestrates applications to make them resilient by horizontally scaling them as needed and restarting them upon failure. This often results in applications being started or restarted on different worker nodes in an unpredictable manner.
Moreover, it is often not possible to attach a container for running the backup process to an already running pod. Given these factors, it is clear that backing up applications on Kubernetes introduces additional challenges. Kubernetes Backup - perform Gitea backup on S3 with MinIO shows how to run backups of Kubernets workloads, providing as example how to backup Gitea on S3.

Vagrant Box Catalog And Vagrant Box Repository Tutorial

Posted on November 25, 2025November 25, 2025 by Marco Antonio Carcano

As we saw in the Vagrant - installing and operating post, Vagrant provides a convenient way for automating the setup, configuration and management of virtual machines, enabling reproducible and consistent development environments.

In that post, we also had an overview of how to create a Vagrantbox from scratch for the Parallels provider. We then digged further the process of creating Vagrant boxes from scratch in the Create Oracle Linux 10 aarch64 Vagrantbox for UTM post, where we generated a full featured Vagrant box for ARM64 using the UTM provider.

The missing part to complete your Vagrant skill sets is the creation of Vagrant Boxes Repositories, grouping them into a Vagratn Box Catalog and publish them on an HTTP server, so to make them available to other users.

Vagrant Box Catalog And Vagrant Box Repository Tutorial explains how to pack mutliple Vagrant boxes into a box repositotory and publish it on an HTTP server.

Create Oracle Linux 10 aarch64 Vagrantbox for UTM

Posted on November 12, 2025November 27, 2025 by Marco Antonio Carcano

On Apple Macs with Silicon processors, UTM is one of the best free virtualization options available, offering solid performance for ARM-based virtual machines.

As we saw in the Vagrant - installing and operationg post, Vagrant provides a convenient way for automating the setup, configuration, and management of virtual machines, enabling reproducible and consistent development environments.

Sadly, when dealing with Vagrant, there are only a few prebuilt Vagrant boxes supporting the UTM provider, which limits its out-of-the-box usability. Create ARM64 VagrantBox for Oracle Linux on UTM arch64 from Scratch shows how to create an aarch64 Oracle Linux 10 Vagrant box supporting the UTM ARM provider, making it easier to deploy and manage Linux VMs on Apple Silicon.

Python Smtplib Tutorial – howto send HTML EMAIL with Python

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Marco Antonio Carcano

The Python Smtplib Tutorial - howto send HTML EMAIL with Python is explains how to send HTML emails using SMTP, including auth, SMTP with TLS and SMTPS.

After introducing Python smtplib, the post provides an hands-on example showing how to add HTML email notification to an existing scirpt. The provided code supports every kind of SMTP connection - SMTP, SMTP with startTLS and SMTPS.

This post completes the trilogy we started with the JINJA2 With Python Tutorial JINJA Ansible HowTo and Python Argparse Tutorial - Argparse HowTo posts.

Python Argparse Tutorial – Argparse HowTo

Posted on October 22, 2025October 28, 2025 by Marco Antonio Carcano

The Python Argparse Tutorial - Argparse HowTo post provides a practical example of how to parse command line parameters and options using the argparse module.

Knowing how to add command line paramenters and options to Python scripts is a must-have skill, since it enables them to better adapt to customers' needs, allowing them to enable or disable specific script features, or providing information on the operational environment structure, such as specific directory paths different from the default ones.

As a professional, you are supposed to always add command line arguments support to your scripts, so to make them always fit to the user-specific scenarios.