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 March 2024, the team worked to also validate the latest versions of the following:
- Ansible
- Apache Solr
- Apache Spark
- Apache Tomcat
- Apache Zeppelin
- Apache ZooKeeper
- Beats
- cfssl
- Consul
- Erlang
- Falco
- Fluentd
- Grafana
- Jenkins
- Libunwind
- Logstash
- MongoDB Driver - C
- MongoDB Driver - CXX
- MongoDB Driver - Java
- Neo4j
- noble-hashes
- OPA
- PHP
- Puppet
- Python
- R
- RabbitMQ
- Rails
- SonarQube
- Terraform
- WildFly
The full list of validated software to date is available here: https://www.ibm.com/community/z/open-source-software/
In March 2024 we also saw the implementation of Docker image builds for the Eventing Kafka Broker receiver & dispatcher to produce container images. The Open Policy Agent's Conftest was added to the project's continuous integration system and now produces binaries as of the version 0.49.0 release. The Skupper project has enabled multiarch builds that include s390x, and now releases IBM Z binaries as of version 1.6.0. We also saw the Goss project add s390x support to their CI via Travis CI, and they started releasing binaries in their version 0.4.6 release. Finally, rotobuf-maven-plugin added some fixes along with adding s390x to their CI pipeline, all noted in their version 0.5.1 release notes to catch future problems before release.
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.