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:

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!