Linux on IBM Z and Containers

This blog has been silent for a while. Reason is that I moved into a different role at IBM, with more focus on Cloud solutions, and less foc...

IBM has published a very nice document about Docker on the mainframe. It is available as PDF download as well as via Knowledge Center . ...

Since end of 2015, SUSE also provides Docker on z through their "containers module" on top of SLES 12 (SP1). This makes SUSE the ...

In some time off, I was able to study some serious container setups. Here are some impressions of the mainframes of real world containers (s...

Container management software is often deployed in containers itself. But how can code running inside a container look at other containers? ...

Containers provide isolated runtime environments for applications: the entire user space environment is exclusively presented to the contain...

Starting a container, doing manual changes to it and committing into a new image is error-prone and does not scale for handling many images....

Docker is platform-agnostic and relies on Linux kernel functionality which is present on most platforms, including s390x (IBM z Systems). It...

Docker provides a comprehensive tool to create, deploy, manage and run containers. In a normal setup, it bases on container technology as we...

A container provides an envelope for running an application. Only resources assigned to the container are visible inside the container. All ...