Linux on IBM Z and Containers

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

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Next Step: Alpine is multi-arch

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As of today, the multi-arch manifest of alpine points to several architectures, including s390x. This means, you can now re-use all the Dock...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Portainer

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Portainer is one of the major Open Source tools for graphically managing Docker environments. You can use portainer on any machine and dire...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Docker and Kubernetes. Kubernetes and Docker.

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Kubernetes has become the trending orchestration solution for containers. All big Cloud providers bet on it, and even in smaller companies,...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Docker CE 17.09 available

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Docker, Inc. has released a new version of their Community Edition engine: 17.09. It includes IBM Z support and is available on Docker Store...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

IBM Z images on Docker Store

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As mentioned in a previous post , an increasing number of Docker "official images" include s390x binaries. This is now also marked...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Elastic Stack on Z

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The Elastic Stack, also known as ELK stack, is a popular choice to manage logs. ELK is an acronym for its three main components Elasticsearc...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Docker Official Images Go Multi-Arch

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Starting today, all Docker official images ( on Docker Hub and soon easily identifiable on Docker Store ) are multi-arch images. Official ...
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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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