Showing posts with label s390x. Show all posts
Showing posts with label s390x. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

First CE for s390x by Docker

Today, Docker CE v17.06 has been released. It offers a series of enhancements as laid out in their announcement blog post. However, there is one more thing: the release comes with s390x binaries. Out of the three major enterprise distributions supported on the mainframe, Docker offers CE for Ubuntu. Particularly, Docker CE is not provided for SLES and RHEL (on any platform). Accordingly, binaries are available for Ubuntu for IBM z Systems.
(Note: See the next post if your distribution of choice happens to be something else than Ubuntu.)

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Multi-Arch Registry and Images

It has been a while since multi-architecture support has been developed and brought upstream. Multi-architecture support allows to put several images behind a common identifier in a registry. With that, a consumer of the image won't have to think about pulling the right binary flavor of the image, it's done right automatically for him.

A couple of things play together for this magic: