Linux on IBM Z and Containers

For s390x, quite a few options for base images are available on Docker Hub / Docker Store these days. They vary from enterprise environment...

The previous post mentioned that Docker provides CE packages for Ubuntu . For users of Debian, SLES, RHEL, Fedora, ClefOS, openSUSE, and Alp...

Today, Docker CE v17.06 has been released. It offers a series of enhancements as laid out in their announcement blog post . However, there i...

Ubuntu has built Docker 1.12 binaries, which target latest and greatest, but can be used on 16.04. Since Docker 1.12 has been split into doc...

Recently, I received some questions on how to create a private registry. Specifically when going to a recent version, building on your own m...

A new version of Docker is linked to from developerWorks . This is a bump to 1.11.2, built on/for RHEL 7.2 (which happens to be the version ...

Canonical's Ubuntu 16.04 comes with LXD as "Linux container hypervisor". What is LXD and how does it differ from docker? LXD...

Today, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Server is available for s390x (and a few other minor platforms :-). It provides a few interesting infrastructure...

With https://hub.docker.com/r/s390x/ubuntu/ , the first Ubuntu 16.04 image just appeared on DockerHub

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...

In the previous post , we looked at various challenges when moving existing (read: x86) container setups onto z Systems. One challenge is th...