Monats-Archive:: Juni 2022

Containers for the mainframe Part 2: Testing s390x containers and zLinux software on x86_64

Dealing with containers on the mainframe has its very own challenges. Sometimes you find a s390x container image and want to run it for testing or development. Normally you would have to do that on the mainframe. It is possible to run s390x container images on x86_64 using qemu to emulate the s390x architecture and…

Containers for the mainframe Part 1: No Internet Access

Dealing with containers on the mainframe has its very own challenges. If you have internet access from your zLinux instance you’re fine — do as always, just be aware of the s390x instruction set architecture. If you have no internet access you have two challenges: You have to pull the image, store it, transfer it to…