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IBM z/OS Container Platform enhancement is now available

By Cris Desnoyers posted Fri September 27, 2024 07:55 AM

  

IBM z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP) 1.1 enhancements to support the Kubernetes cluster upgrade experience is now available via PTFs. 

IBM z/OS Container Platform, zOSCP, utilizes industry-standard open source technologies to build, deploy, run and manage containerized z/OS UNIX applications natively on z/OS. The product delivers a container runtime, Kubernetes orchestration and High Availability and load balancing capabilities to manage the availability and scalability demands of a Kubernetes cluster.

With this delivery, IBM is further enhancing the capability to support a production ready environment for running z/OS containers.

This IBM z/OS Container Platform 1.1, PTF update is shipped with the following APARs:

Further details of APAR OA66262 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66782.

Further details of APAR OA66266 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66799.

Further details of APAR OA66267 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66800.

Further details of APAR OA66268 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66801.

Further details of APAR OA66269 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66802.

Further details of APAR OA66270 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66803.

Further details of APAR OA66361 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66804.

Further details of APAR OA66362 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66805.

Further details of APAR OA66363 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66806.

Further details of APAR OA66363 for IBM z/OS Container Platform are available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA66807.

Enhancements

  • Open-source component upgrades:

    • IBM z/OS for runC is upgraded to runC version 1.13.

    • Kubelet for IBM z/OS is upgraded to version 1.30.4.

    • cri-O for IBM z/OS is upgraded to version 1.30.4.

    • IBM  z/OS Control Plane Appliance (zCPA) is upgraded to 1.30.4.

  • Two new IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) workflows to manage the process of upgrading a Kubernetes cluster

    • zOSMF workflow to upgrade a Kubernetes worker node

    • zOSMF workflow to upgrade an IBM z/OS Control Plane Appliance

  • Documentation for performing a Kubernetes cluster upgrade

IBM z/OS Container Platform complies with the Kubernetes upgrade version skew policy and the component upgrade order.  To assist users and enable adherence to these conventions, zOSCP is delivering two new z/OSMF workflows to support the Kubernetes cluster upgrade process.

The zOSCP product documentation describes the upgrade scenarios for both a High Availability (HA) Kubernetes cluster configuration and a non-HA, single zCPA Kubernetes cluster configuration. For more information see, Upgrading IBM z/OS Container Platform. 

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