Linux on IBM Z and Containers

The Elastic Stack, also known as ELK stack, is a popular choice to manage logs. ELK is an acronym for its three main components Elasticsearc...

In this post , we created an image that deals with go-based containers. When tagging it golang , building works out of the box for most Dock...

Containers can be deployed in several ways, depending on goals and usage scenarios. Let's have a look at typical patterns and view this ...

At LinuxCon, KVM for z has been announced . From a Docker perspective, what does KVM change over a z/VM environment? There's a pretty sh...

Most recently, I mentioned ( here and here ) how to best deal with the fact that Ubuntu is widely used as base image, but does not exist on...

Previously we looked at the portability of container setups. One of the observations is that a lot of containers are based on a Go environm...

So we have created a Debian base image and are looking at some of the steps to run containers which may have platform dependencies. An exam...

In the previous post , we looked at various challenges when moving existing (read: x86) container setups onto z Systems. One challenge is th...

Often enough, Docker is mentioned in one breath with portability. However, there are two dimensions of portability: first, running a contain...