Linux on IBM Z and Containers

The high end version of IBM Blockchain Platform uses a combination of virtualization and containerization to crank up isolation attributes ...

The previous post showed that portainer is now available for s390x. Today, the project announced a support offering which can also apply ...

A previous post described how to run portainer on z. Starting today, s390x support is part of their Docker Hub image. This makes the task a...

As of today, the multi-arch manifest of alpine points to several architectures, including s390x. This means, you can now re-use all the Dock...

Portainer is one of the major Open Source tools for graphically managing Docker environments. You can use portainer on any machine and dire...

Kubernetes has become the trending orchestration solution for containers. All big Cloud providers bet on it, and even in smaller companies,...

Docker, Inc. has released a new version of their Community Edition engine: 17.09. It includes IBM Z support and is available on Docker Store...

As mentioned in a previous post , an increasing number of Docker "official images" include s390x binaries. This is now also marked...

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...

Starting today, all Docker official images ( on Docker Hub and soon easily identifiable on Docker Store ) are multi-arch images. Official ...

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

It has been signaled earlier this year , now it has been announced: Docker Enterprise Edition is available for Z . Version 17.06.1 has now b...

A couple of days ago, SUSE published a major update to the Docker engine. The Containers Module now offers version 17.04-CE of the engine ...

For s390x, quite a few options for base images are available on Docker Hub / Docker Store these days. They vary from enterprise environment...

The previous post mentioned that Docker provides CE packages for Ubuntu . For users of Debian, SLES, RHEL, Fedora, ClefOS, openSUSE, and Alp...

Today, Docker CE v17.06 has been released. It offers a series of enhancements as laid out in their announcement blog post . However, there i...

Alpine Linux has announced their new 3.6 release which includes s390x support. Alpine is a minimal Linux distro. Contrary to other distrib...

It's a while since Docker changed their release naming system. In the past, the version looked like 1. xx , with xx counting up. After ...

Ubuntu has built Docker 1.12 binaries, which target latest and greatest, but can be used on 16.04. Since Docker 1.12 has been split into doc...

It has been a while since multi-architecture support has been developed and brought upstream. Multi-architecture support allows to put seve...