You can run z/Linux on Hercules or Z mainframe. Go to https://hub.docker.com/search?q=&type=image&architecture=s390x . Select IBM Z as the hardware and there are 2001 images ready to download. Pick one with the combination of database and language support you want.
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 12:00 PM John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
