Docker on the LinuxONE Community Cloud

The LinuxONE Community Cloud provides an open access to Linux running on a mainframe, primarily targeted at development, porting and functional testing.
Registered users can deploy recent SLES and RHEL instances. Since SLES12 SP1 along with the containers module provides Docker support, it's an easy way to play with Docker there. Try it!

The quickest way to get a container up is:

sudo -i service docker start
docker pull s390x/debian
docker run -ti s390x/debian bash

Thousands of Containers, Millions of Containers: Towards Sufficiency of Infrastructure Components

In this week's LinuxONE announcement, containers are mentioned a couple of times. Docker has been used as underlying infrastructure for some of the announcement's demo workloads, and when implementing such a new project, microservices and containers seem a natural deployment paradigm choice. Further sound bites are about scaling over the number of Docker containers on LinuxONE, so what is behind that? For those who know me personally, you've got to watch the video. They made me wear a *black* T-Shirt, can you image!