Linux on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE use the s390x hardware architecture, so for some applications a little work sometimes has to be done so they compile and run as expected. This work is often done as a collaboration between the open source projects themselves and a team at IBM that helps with validation that the software is working as expected. This effort is an on going collaboration with every release of the software needing to be validated.
For the month of February 2024, the team worked to also validate the latest versions of the following:
- Ansible
- Apache Camel
- Apache Ignite
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Storm
- Bazel
- Calico
- Cruise Control
- etcd
- HAProxy
- InfluxDB
- Logstash
- MariaDB
- MongoDB Driver - CXX
- MongoDB Driver - PHP
- MySQL8.x
- MySQL 8.0.x
- Neo4j
- NGINX Ingress Controller
- noble-hashes
- Openresty
- PostgreSQL
- RabbitMQ
- Rails
- Salt
- Spire
- Strimzi Kafka Operator
- TensorFlow
- Tensorflow transform
- Tensorflow serving
- Terraform
- WildFly
The full list of validated software to date from the team is available here: https://www.ibm.com/community/z/open-source-software/
In February nginx-proxy added s390x to their CI to start releasing container images and the avahi project also added s390x to their ci system. We were also happy to check in on and see that a fully supported drgn for s390x is now in their CI system.
Are you a developer for an open source project interested in seeing your application made available to users on Linux on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE? Your first stop should be the IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud where you can sign up for a free virtual machine for 120 days where you can see how your application runs, and discover for yourself what you may need to change to get it to run well on Linux on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE.
If you wish to have permanent virtual machines for development, testing, or to add to your CI system, you can fill out this form to apply for resources for your project.