Wait, People Run Kubernetes on Mainframes?
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 · on Wednesday, 2019-11-20· at 16:25· Pacific Ballroom, Salon 14-15 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel·
summary
Mainframes run Linux and are a viable Kubernetes host: there are s390x Kubernetes builds and distributions (SUSE, Ubuntu, RHEL) with tested packages, OpenShift is being ported to Z, and Canonical documents LPAR + LXD deployments. Typical Z15 hardware offers up to 40 TB RAM, ~190 cores, 6 PB storage, and hardware crypto coprocessors that Go can access, enabling very fast encrypted workloads; operators use Zoe APIs to integrate z/OS services and report production hybrid setups that actually work.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:31Once upon a time...
- 2:39Elizabeth K. Joseph, IBM
- 3:26What is a mainframe?
- 8:09Mainframes are quite nice!
- 13:34They run Linux
- 16:40Did you see that? Kubernetes!
- 17:09So, who does this?
- 19:04CDK Infrastructure
- 23:23And Hybrid Cloud!
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