https://jimporell.com/2018/02/13/porting-an-enterprise-app-to-system-z-my-experience-part-4-of-4-the-value-and-future/
The above was the 4th of a 4 part blog series on porting a Linux app from Amazon AWS to z/Linux. I found it interesting. But especially the next paragraph: ==== Docker inside z/OS? That would simplify things! But what else is possible? I said in Part 3 <https://wp.me/p44w22-a5> that Docker containers are not portable across architectures. However, they are portable within the same architecture. There are some prototypes underway for Docker to run within z/OS. Given the way Docker works on other platforms, it would infer than any Linux on z containers could run unmodified within z/OS. If Docker for z/OS were to run on a zIIP processor, there would be no software license hits for z/OS. If that all comes to pass, that could lead to significant transaction and analytic value within z/OS and greatly simplify the system management requirements for these types of hybrid workloads, while improving the overall security, resilience and performance and reducing the operational costs. I would hope that a public announcement of this capability is not too far in the future. ==== -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
