Eric Smalling
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.
Sessions
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 how to debug it!
Join me for a hands-on demonstration of various ways to troubleshoot these images without sacrificing the security as well as a discussion of the pros and cons of adopting distroless.
Some of the base image types we'll research:
* Google Distroless
* Wolfi
* scratch