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SSL certificate validity checker
Dec 23, 2022
It’s almost 2023 and we still see websites with expired certificates, but how can this happen? While most of the popular Certificate Authorities offer automatic renewal, there are still situations where we have to rely on manual steps, and consequently in possible human errors. So, how can we monitor the health of our certificates and get notified if any actions have to be taken? In this post, I’m presenting a simple serverless solution that periodically checks the SSL certificate of a set of websites and sends an email notification in case the certificate is expired or close to expiration.…
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Puppeteer on AWS CodeBuild Windows containers
Jan 29, 2022
In a recent project I’ve had some challenges trying to run Puppeteer on AWS CodeBuild Windows containers. Since the complete solution was nowhere to be found, I’ve though to share my findings in this post 😉 The code running on the container was already battle tested on Linux and similar to the one below: const puppeteer = require('puppeteer'); function run () { return new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => { try { console.…
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Home Lab 0.1
Dec 18, 2021
Setting up my home lab was an interesting and fun activity I did in a few days using a pair of spare Raspberry Pis that were laying around my home. My main goal was to learn the basics of Kubernetes , also know as K8s, which I have avoided so far for its notorious complexity. K8s is becoming more relevant in my daily work, thus I felt the need to learn by doing some practical and fun tasks, which works the best for me.…