Showing posts with label kvm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kvm. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Run containers in separate virtual machines

The high end version of IBM Blockchain Platform uses a combination of virtualization and containerization to crank up isolation attributes of business networks a bit. We have now released the underlying technology into Open Source: runq on github.

runq allows to start containers in a slightly different fashion in a Docker environment:

Friday, April 22, 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 GAes and Provides Containers

Today, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Server is available for s390x (and a few other minor platforms :-). It provides a few interesting infrastructure options: besides OpenStack and KVM, it offers system containers with LXC/LXD; for application containers, it comes with Docker. Some aspects of what this introduces will follow here...

Monday, August 17, 2015

Docker and z/VM or KVM?

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 short answer: nothing. KVM is cool for a number of things, z/VM is still king of the road, PR/SM still has got some bragging rights, and Docker doesn't care, as long as a Linux runs in it. Docker under both z/VM and KVM benefits from complementing technologies.