IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

[Timothy Sipples]

I’d like to draw your attention to this IBM announcement:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos

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Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity
IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific
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Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

[Jousma, David]

Timothy,

I’ll wait to see more information as it becomes available.   So zCX is Ubuntu 
Linux on z/OS, IBM has labelled Redhat Openshift as zCX-OCP, and now we have 
zOSCP.   I like the container Ideas, but this literally sounds like z/OS Unix 
inside a container?   I guess that surprises me, as I don’t hear about people 
actively coding in z/OS Unix.   Or is this something else?

BTW, I am a big proponent of ZCX, and would like to see IBM move its ancillary 
mainframe support software into a docker container.   I know TWS DWC, Omegamon 
TEPS, and others are moving that way.   Just waiting for more to come. We 
are also running Rocker Terminal Emulator Webedition in ZCX to replace all of 
our desktop out-of-date Bluezone implementations.

Dave Jousma
Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering


From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf of 
Timothy Sipples 
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Subject: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform
I’d like to draw your attention to this IBM announcement: https: //urldefense. 
com/v3/__https: //www. ibm. 
com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$


I’d like to draw your attention to this IBM announcement:



https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$><https://urldefense.com/v3/__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__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKZu1F5Bg$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos?region=US__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKZu1F5Bg$>>



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IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific

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Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

[Matt Hogstrom]

At Broadcom we announced support for K8s deployments of what I call the 
surround z/OS software deployment.   Internally we’ve tested deployments on 
x86, zLinux and zCX with the latter two using OCP.   

Its called WatchTower and leverages public REST APIs across the on z/OS and off 
z/OS products.   K8s makes deployment,management and upgrades so much easier.

We started with x86 as most Z shops are not ready on zLinux or zCX   Cant wait 
for that though.  

Matt Hogstrom
PGP key 0F143BC1

> On Mar 6, 2024, at 07:48, Jousma, David 
> <01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> 
> Timothy,
> 
> I’ll wait to see more information as it becomes available.   So zCX is Ubuntu 
> Linux on z/OS, IBM has labelled Redhat Openshift as zCX-OCP, and now we have 
> zOSCP.   I like the container Ideas, but this literally sounds like z/OS Unix 
> inside a container?   I guess that surprises me, as I don’t hear about people 
> actively coding in z/OS Unix.   Or is this something else?
> 
> BTW, I am a big proponent of ZCX, and would like to see IBM move its 
> ancillary mainframe support software into a docker container.   I know TWS 
> DWC, Omegamon TEPS, and others are moving that way.   Just waiting for more 
> to come. We are also running Rocker Terminal Emulator Webedition in ZCX 
> to replace all of our desktop out-of-date Bluezone implementations.
> 
> Dave Jousma
> Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering
> 
> 
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf of 
> Timothy Sipples 
> Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
> Subject: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform
> I’d like to draw your attention to this IBM announcement: https: 
> //urldefense. com/v3/__https: //www. ibm. 
> com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$  //urldefense. com/v3/__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__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKZu1F5Bg$>
> 
> 
> I’d like to draw your attention to this IBM announcement:
> 
> 
> 
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$><https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos?region=US__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKZu1F5Bg$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__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__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKZu1F5Bg$>>
> 
> 
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> 
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Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

[Allan Staller]

Classification: Confidential

How does this compare to z/CX. IS this a supplement? Replacement? Other?

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Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

[Rick Troth]

For clarity, start with "chroot" or "change root".
Unix has had thechroot() function and the 'chroot' command since before 
my time, thus POSIX and Linux have it too.
Within a changed root environment, the process or program can only "see" 
files from the new root directory on down.
The hardware architecture and the operating system (ABI or application 
binary interface) remain the same.


The downside to this (or maybe the upside, depending on what you need) 
is that programs running under 'chroot' "see" the same network stack and 
devices. They also "see" other processes (and can signal them).
I used to say that 'chroot' was the closest thing Unix had to a virtual 
machine. It's fantastic for development, and often useful for security.

But then came containers.

Containers are like "chroot on steroids". Processes running in a 
container have the "root" indicated, but also have their own unique 
_network address_ and a private _process space_. The advantage is 
sharing of the kernel (or nucleus); no need to intercept I/O or 
virtualize devices.
The hardware architecture and the operating system (ABI or application 
binary interface) remain the same.


A container hosted by Linux is a Linux environment. A container hosted 
by Slolaris is a Slolaris environment. A container (called a "jail") 
hosted by FreeBSD* is a FreeBSD environment.
_Presumably a container hosted by z/OS (USS) is a z/OS (USS) 
environment,_ but the sales pitches are perhaps vague. (It's also 
possible that I'm just dense! I concede.)


So ... Timothy ... please speak it plainly for slowpokes like me.
*What exactly are these various offerings? *

Thanks!

*FreeBSD (or possibly one of the other BSDs) was first with this, by the 
way. They call it a "jail".


-- R; <><




On 3/6/24 08:04, Matt Hogstrom wrote:

At Broadcom we announced support for K8s deployments of what I call the 
surround z/OS software deployment.   Internally we’ve tested deployments on 
x86, zLinux and zCX with the latter two using OCP.

Its called WatchTower and leverages public REST APIs across the on z/OS and off 
z/OS products.   K8s makes deployment,management and upgrades so much easier.

We started with x86 as most Z shops are not ready on zLinux or zCX   Cant wait 
for that though.

Matt Hogstrom
PGP key 0F143BC1


On Mar 6, 2024, at 07:48, Jousma, 
David<01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>  wrote:

Timothy,

I’ll wait to see more information as it becomes available.   So zCX is Ubuntu 
Linux on z/OS, IBM has labelled Redhat Openshift as zCX-OCP, and now we have 
zOSCP.   I like the container Ideas, but this literally sounds like z/OS Unix 
inside a container?   I guess that surprises me, as I don’t hear about people 
actively coding in z/OS Unix.   Or is this something else?

BTW, I am a big proponent of ZCX, and would like to see IBM move its ancillary 
mainframe support software into a docker container.   I know TWS DWC, Omegamon 
TEPS, and others are moving that way.   Just waiting for more to come. We 
are also running Rocker Terminal Emulator Webedition in ZCX to replace all of 
our desktop out-of-date Bluezone implementations.

Dave Jousma
Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering


From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf of Timothy 
Sipples
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM
To:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU  
Subject: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform
I’d like to draw your attention to this IBM announcement: https: //urldefense. 
com/v3/__https: //www. ibm. 
com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$


I’d like to draw your attention to this IBM announcement:



https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$><https://urldefense.com/v3/__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__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKZu1F5Bg$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ibm.com/docs/en/announceme

Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

[Seymour J Metz]

Weren't there jails in MULTICS?

--
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf of 
Rick Troth <058ff5c2d0a7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 8:55 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

For clarity, start with "chroot" or "change root".
Unix has had thechroot() function and the 'chroot' command since before
my time, thus POSIX and Linux have it too.
Within a changed root environment, the process or program can only "see"
files from the new root directory on down.
The hardware architecture and the operating system (ABI or application
binary interface) remain the same.

The downside to this (or maybe the upside, depending on what you need)
is that programs running under 'chroot' "see" the same network stack and
devices. They also "see" other processes (and can signal them).
I used to say that 'chroot' was the closest thing Unix had to a virtual
machine. It's fantastic for development, and often useful for security.
But then came containers.

Containers are like "chroot on steroids". Processes running in a
container have the "root" indicated, but also have their own unique
_network address_ and a private _process space_. The advantage is
sharing of the kernel (or nucleus); no need to intercept I/O or
virtualize devices.
The hardware architecture and the operating system (ABI or application
binary interface) remain the same.

A container hosted by Linux is a Linux environment. A container hosted
by Slolaris is a Slolaris environment. A container (called a "jail")
hosted by FreeBSD* is a FreeBSD environment.
_Presumably a container hosted by z/OS (USS) is a z/OS (USS)
environment,_ but the sales pitches are perhaps vague. (It's also
possible that I'm just dense! I concede.)

So ... Timothy ... please speak it plainly for slowpokes like me.
*What exactly are these various offerings? *

Thanks!

*FreeBSD (or possibly one of the other BSDs) was first with this, by the
way. They call it a "jail".

-- R; <><




On 3/6/24 08:04, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
> At Broadcom we announced support for K8s deployments of what I call the 
> surround z/OS software deployment.   Internally we’ve tested deployments on 
> x86, zLinux and zCX with the latter two using OCP.
>
> Its called WatchTower and leverages public REST APIs across the on z/OS and 
> off z/OS products.   K8s makes deployment,management and upgrades so much 
> easier.
>
> We started with x86 as most Z shops are not ready on zLinux or zCX   Cant 
> wait for that though.
>
> Matt Hogstrom
> PGP key 0F143BC1
>
>> On Mar 6, 2024, at 07:48, Jousma, 
>> David<01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>  wrote:
>>
>> Timothy,
>>
>> I’ll wait to see more information as it becomes available.   So zCX is 
>> Ubuntu Linux on z/OS, IBM has labelled Redhat Openshift as zCX-OCP, and now 
>> we have zOSCP.   I like the container Ideas, but this literally sounds like 
>> z/OS Unix inside a container?   I guess that surprises me, as I don’t hear 
>> about people actively coding in z/OS Unix.   Or is this something else?
>>
>> BTW, I am a big proponent of ZCX, and would like to see IBM move its 
>> ancillary mainframe support software into a docker container.   I know TWS 
>> DWC, Omegamon TEPS, and others are moving that way.   Just waiting for more 
>> to come. We are also running Rocker Terminal Emulator Webedition in ZCX 
>> to replace all of our desktop out-of-date Bluezone implementations.
>>
>> Dave Jousma
>> Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering
>>
>>
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf of 
>> Timothy Sipples
>> Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM
>> To:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU  
>> Subject: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform
>> I’d like to draw your attention to this IBM announcement: https: 
>> //urldefense. com/v3/__https: //www. ibm. 
>> com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKdSvtHkw$>  //urldefense. com/v3/__https: //www. ibm. 
>> com/docs/en/announcements/zos-container-platform-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos?region=US__;!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!g9jgcYA166VI9yCFuvhNkTfHy8dDjgaHN__msC1njoKwcSod3-qptPTbiM-TB68jc0uSWrpixIKZu1F5Bg$>

Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

[kekronbekron]

It's neither a supplement or a replacement. So it's an 'other'.

This is how I interpret the situation - 
zCX is for people who don't have Linux on Z, and/or would like to keep this 
slice of linux in the mainframe domain's garden.
zCX is not just Ubuntu. A few other distros will work too, if not all.

As you say DJ, zCP is "just" isolation for USS processes.
They don't code today for USS, but a whole world of possibility w.r.t tooling 
is opening up because of the LLVM-based compiler options that IBM provides now.
Decades of tools written in C/C++ (now with make, cmake, clang working in zOS) 
are now "game" in zOS.
Same for tools written in Go from recent times.

So zCP is a way to deploy them as they would be off of mainframe.

The more that native zOS stuff is unix-ified, the more of zOS administration 
can be managed/controlled from OpenShift Operator for zOS or whatever it's 
called.
At the moment, Ansible is trying to help for working with the MVS-native side.
I say "trying to" because I see automated workflows getting horribly 
complicated -- and still embedding JCL -- and being sold as modernized/improved.
300+ lines of python + yaml to replace 20 lines of JCL... where the 300+ lines 
embeds said JCL.



On Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 at 19:01, Allan Staller 
<0387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> Classification: Confidential
> 
> How does this compare to z/CX. IS this a supplement? Replacement? Other?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf Of 
> Timothy Sipples
> 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 7:45 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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> 
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> 
> 
> -
> Timothy Sipples
> Senior Architect
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Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

[Timothy Sipples]

(Cross-posted to MVS-OE.) A little more information on the IBM z/OS Container 
Platform is now available here:

https://www.ibm.com/support/z-content-solutions/zos-container-platform/

Here’s my quick functional summary of some related offerings:


  *   IBM z/OS Container Extensions: runs containerized Linux applications on 
z/OS
  *   OpenShift on z/OS (“zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift”): runs 
containerized Linux applications on z/OS with advanced provisioning, 
clustering, orchestration, and management
  *   IBM z/OS Container Platform: runs containerized z/OS UNIX™️ applications
  *   Statement of Direction announced with the IBM z/OS Container Platform: 
“Kubernetes orchestration support”
  *   IBM z/OS Cloud Broker: allows OpenShift environments to provision and 
orchestrate z/OS-hosted services, including “classic” services

Yes, IBM is introducing an Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant container 
image standard for z/OS UNIX applications. The IBM z/OS Container Platform (IBM 
Program No. 5655-MC3) should be Generally Available on March 15, 2024. The full 
documentation should also be available on that date.

I understand IBM publicly demonstrated (for the first time) the IBM z/OS 
Container Platform at SHARE about 12 hours ago as I write this. Any first 
person reports?

—
Timothy Sipples
Senior Architect
Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity
IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific
sipp...@sg.ibm.com


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Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

[Timothy Sipples]

The documentation for IBM z/OS Container Platform is now available here:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zoscp/1.1.0

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Timothy Sipples
Senior Architect
Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity
IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific
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