The Journey Continues

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 focus on the mainframe. Therefore, the blog will remain silent. I will let the blog active, as I still see quite a number of hits from search engines, so some articles seem a good reference.

However, there is a now blog on the horizon, that continues the exciting topic how Mainframe and Cloud technologies are a great complement: Alice Frosi blogs at https://containersonibmz.com/. I strongly suggest to take a look there and follow Alice's blog, as she is right at the cutting edge of this journey.

Thank you for visiting this place, for your questions and feedback. Enjoy how the future is shaped.

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!

Container Patterns

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

The Mainframes of Real Containers

In some time off, I was able to study some serious container setups. Here are some impressions of the mainframes of real world containers (so you might be able to figure out where I have been to).
IMHO it becomes apparent that large scale deployments provide the best economics for container service providers, and the entire world's economy relies on it.