Bio
Eric is a 30+ year enterprise software developer, architect, and consultant with a focus on CI/CD, DevOps, and container-based solutions over the last decade. He is a Docker Captain, is certified in Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS), and has been a Docker user since 2013. As a Staff Solutions Architect at Chainguard, Eric helps teams deploy their applications securely by minimizing container image footprint and CVE counts.
My Talks
99 Microservices problems but the deployment ain't one
K8s, Helm & similar tools help enable deployment of microservices app stacks, but the larger they scale, the harder it is to deploy. This is especially true in environments where connectivity is co...
Automated deployment pipelines with Jenkins and Puppet
One of the more challenging problems in most deployment pipelines is tracking application artifacts after they are built. Using a few Jenkins plugins, a Maven repository and Puppet, we will demons...
Automated testing in your private cloud with Jenkins and VMware
It's very common to see the use of on-demand compute resources to test Jenkins build artifacts but all-to-often public use of cloud providers is restricted. Most large organizations already have V...
Elastic Functional Testing with Selenium and Docker
Selenium Grids can provide the platform parallelizing your web test suites but they can start to become unstable at scale and right-sizing them for multiple test loads can be challenging. Join us ...
How the heck do I debug distroless containers?
Congrats, you’ve finally deployed a new ultra-secure “distroless” image with no shell, package manager or extraneous utilities. All was great until you hit an issue in prod and now you’ve no idea h...