Most recently, I mentioned (here and here) how to best deal with the fact that Ubuntu is widely used as base image, but does not exist on z Systems. A sufficiently close Debian is a decent solution for that.
Today's announcement at LinuxCon shows how this will get even easier: Ubuntu will be made available on z Systems. This will make all "FROM ubuntu" images no-brainers.
Showing posts with label portability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portability. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
A Look at Docker and Portability
Often enough, Docker is mentioned in one breath with portability. However, there are two dimensions of portability: first, running a container on any system of the same platform. Here, Docker really simplifies deploying applications on any system (of the
same instruction set architecture). From a Linux on z Systems
perspective, the second aspect of cross platform portability is more
interesting: portability across platforms. Often enough, getting a container to run on z is not a big deal, but sometimes it is. Let's decompose this:
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