Martino Fornasa

Cloud-native and DevOps independent consultant and trainer.
Organizer of the UseCaseConf conference. Created eventitech.it.

December 5, 2025
Migrating from Ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway: Handling cert-manager integration
The recent retirement of Ingress NGINX led a lot of people (including myself) to consider alternatives. Since we need to migrate anyway, it makes sense to migrate to the newer Gateway API, the replacement for the older Ingress API. The Ingress API's limited expressiveness led to a bunch of non-standard annotations, which were clearly suboptimal and definitely not portable. It turns out that one of the defining features of Gateway...
November 14, 2025
OpenTelemetry Incremental Adoption Strategies
OpenTelemetry is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for telemetry collection. My highly scientific show-of-hands polls during a couple of public speaking engagements over the last year show steadily rising awareness and adoption. OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a framework designed to collect logs, metrics, traces, and other signals. It includes a set of SDKs, semantic conventions, a protocol specification, and an agent called the OpenTelemetry Collector, essentially a modular data pipeline...