On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 7:56 AM Anthony Giorgio <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you have specific questions about zCX, feel free to post them here. > I'll do my best to answer them, or find someone else who can. > > As far as the technical setup of zCX, it's essentially a z/OS hypervisor > (like z/VM) that is only configured to run Linux. The Linux guest OS is > running Docker, and is a turnkey appliance. You only have to configure > the appliance to run in your z/OS environment (network, DASD, CPUs, etc.) > > Once zCX is configured and the address space (or spaces!) is started, > the Docker service will be available to you in the appliance. You can > use this service to pull containers from Docker registries. A container > is essentially a packaged application+OS+libraries, which rather neatly > solves the "dependency hell" problem. You can create your own > containers or use commercially published ones, and these can be deployed > to a "Docker registry" for use, either internally or externally. > -- > Anthony Giorgio > Advisory Software Engineer, z/OS Container Extensions > > I know nothing about Docker at present. Would it be possible for me to use a Linux/Intel system and the s390x cross-build tools to make a Docker "image" which I could then deploy on z/OS? -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
