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by aus_ 3854 days ago
IBM has been recently promoting Docker on z. IBM argues the high I/O capabilities of their platform are a good fit for the container model. (I don't disagree with them. The many-application-on-big-hardware model is not a new concept to IBM. Hell, they invented it.)

Anyways... Since Docker is written in Go, the only way Docker has been available for s390x was by building with gccgo. My guess is that native Go support is in the interest of Docker on z and would be a worthwhile investment for IBM.
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jacques_chester 3854 days ago
IBM is also the second-biggest contributor to Cloud Foundry after Pivotal (for whom, disclaimer, I work). Almost all new CF code is written in Go.

I expect they're going to position mainframes as an ideal platform for CF installations (under a title like "BlueMix Z").

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cbd1984 3854 days ago
> Docker on z.

Docker on Linux on VM on LPARs on z.

Nobody say it...

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rodgerd 3854 days ago
More likely Docker on Linux on LPAR. At that point you'd struggle to see the value of VM, other than making some of the device management/maintenance easier.
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