Linux on IBM Z and Containers

Topics on container technology and its use in Linux on the mainframe

Thursday, March 26, 2015

New Docker binaries available for Linux on z Systems

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There are new Docker binaries available for Linux on z Systems, fixing a segmentation fault. Check out http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lin...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Creating Base Images

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In First Steps with Docker , we have used a fairly crude way to create initial base images. A minimalistic approach to come to a base image ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Virtualization vs. Containerization

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Containers provide isolated runtime environments for applications: the entire user space environment is exclusively presented to the contain...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Dockerfiles

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Starting a container, doing manual changes to it and committing into a new image is error-prone and does not scale for handling many images....

First Steps with Docker

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Docker is platform-agnostic and relies on Linux kernel functionality which is present on most platforms, including s390x (IBM z Systems). It...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Docker

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Docker provides a comprehensive tool to create, deploy, manage and run containers. In a normal setup, it bases on container technology as we...

What Are Containers?

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A container provides an envelope for running an application. Only resources assigned to the container are visible inside the container. All ...
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Utz Bacher
At the time of writing, I have worked as architect for Linux on z Systems in the IBM Research and Development Lab in Boeblingen, Germany. Meanwhile I have assumed a different role in Cloud solutioning, extending the focus beyond mainframes and container technology.
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