About

Eric Smalling

Docker Captain and Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk

Eric has about 30 years of professional experience in enterprise software development and architecture, including build, test, and deployment automation. He has been practicing DevOps concepts since long before the term was coined. On practically every project throughout his career, he has worn multiple hats: developer, automated testing evangelist, version control administrator, and build system engineer. Eric has been a continuous integration advocate and implementer for nearly a decade, is a Docker Captain and has been using container technologies since 2013. A second-generation software developer. (his father was a SNOBOL coder in the 60s and the president of the Honeywell/Bull Users society for several years), he grew up in the 1980s and was coding 8-bit machines in elementary school. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, traveling, photography, and is an avid retro computing and EV enthusiast. Eric is “@ericsmalling” on Twitter, LinkedIn and GitHub.

Contributions

Building Applications for Kubernetes
Beginner

Building Applications for Kubernetes

This course is for developers that are new to building applications to run on Kubernetes. It covers how to build container images, run your app locally on Kubernetes, tools you can use to improve your workflow, and how to manage manifests for deployment.

Networking in Kubernetes
Advanced

Networking in Kubernetes

Pods running in a Kubernetes cluster have to be able to communicate among themselves as well as with the outside world. In this advanced-level course, we will look at the Kubernetes network model and how pods are connected to the network to satisfy it. We'll also touch on what the Container Network Interface (CNI) is and how different CNI providers deal with implementing it.