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title: Tutorials
description: 'cert-manager tutorials: Overview'
---

Step-by-step tutorials are a great way to get started with cert-manager, and we provide a few
for you to learn from. Take a look!

- [Backup and Restore Resources](./backup.md): Backup the cert-manager resources
  in your cluster and then restore them.
- [Pomerium Ingress](./acme/pomerium-ingress.md): Tutorial on using the Pomerium Ingress Controller with cert-manager.
- [Securing Ingresses with NGINX-Ingress and cert-manager](./acme/nginx-ingress.md): Tutorial for deploying NGINX into your
  cluster and securing incoming connections with a certificate from Let's Encrypt.
- [Issuing an ACME Certificate using DNS Validation](./acme/dns-validation.md):
  Tutorial on how to resolve DNS ownership validation using DNS01 challenges.
- [Issuing an ACME Certificate using HTTP Validation](./acme/http-validation.md):
  Tutorial on how to resolve DNS ownership validation using HTTP01 challenges.
- [Migrating from kube-lego](./acme/migrating-from-kube-lego.md): Tutorial on
  how to migrate from the now deprecated kube-lego project.
- [Securing an EKS Cluster with Venafi](./venafi/venafi.md): Tutorial for
  creating an EKS cluster and securing an NGINX deployment with a Venafi issued
  certificate.
- [Securing an Istio service mesh with cert-manager](./istio-csr/istio-csr.md): Tutorial for
  securing an Istio service mesh using a cert-manager issuer.


### External Tutorials

- A great AWS blog post on using cert-manager for end-to-end encryption in EKS. See [Setting up end-to-end TLS encryption on Amazon EKS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/setting-up-end-to-end-tls-encryption-on-amazon-eks-with-the-new-aws-load-balancer-controller/)
- A full cert-manager installation demo on a GKE Cluster. See [How-To: Automatic SSL Certificate Management for your Kubernetes Application Deployment](https://medium.com/contino-engineering/how-to-automatic-ssl-certificate-management-for-your-kubernetes-application-deployment-94b64dfc9114)
- cert-manager installation on GKE Cluster using Workload Identity. See [Kubernetes, ingress-nginx, cert-manager & external-dns](https://blog.atomist.com/kubernetes-ingress-nginx-cert-manager-external-dns/)
- A video tutorial for beginners showing cert-manager in action. See [Free SSL for Kubernetes with cert-manager](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoLUigg4V18)
