IBM z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP) was announced on March 5 this year, and released on March 15. It implements native z/OS containers, and includes podman, runC and other container utilities. IBM also. has a statement of direction for Kubernetes: "IBM intends to deliver Kubernetes orchestration support for the management of the IBM z/OS Container Platform. This offering will enable consistent deployment of container-based z/OS applications using industry standard technology. Containerized z/OS UNIX applications and integration with Kubernetes on z/OS is essential to a cloud native strategy and is in support of the IBM Z® hybrid cloud strategy." All of these tools are written in Go and compiled with our compiler :-)
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos?region=US
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Bill O'Farrell
Senior Technical Manger, Go on z/OS
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu May 02, 2024 01:10 AM
From: Frank Swarbrick
Subject: Kubernetes on native z/OS
Kubernetes is written in Go. Is there anything stopping it from compiling and running on native z/OS (ie., not zCX)? Honestly, I don't really even know what Kubernetes does, but I imagine it might be interesting to run on z/OS.
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Frank Swarbrick
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