Getting started with z/OS Container Extensions and Docker

An IBM Redbooks publication

Published 13 November 2019, updated 12 July 2021

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ISBN-10: 0738458155
ISBN-13: 9780738458151
IBM Form #: SG24-8457-00
(272 pages)

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Authors: Lydia Parziale, Zach Burns, Marco Egli, Redelf Janssen, Volkmar Langer, Subhajit Maitra, Eric Marins, Edward McCarthy, Jim Newell

Abstract

IBM® z/OS® Container Extensions (IBM zCX) is a new feature of the next version of the IBM z/OS Operating System (z/OS V2.4). It makes it possible to run Linux on IBM Z® applications that are packaged as Docker container images on z/OS. Application developers can develop, and data centers can operate, popular open source packages, Linux applications, IBM software, and third-party software together with z/OS applications and data.
This IBM Redbooks® publication helps you to understand the concepts, business perspectives and reference architecture for installing, tailoring, and configuring zCX in your own environment.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. z/OS Container Extensions planning
Chapter 3. Security - Overview
Chapter 4. Provisioning and managing your first z/OS Container
Chapter 5. Your first running Docker container in zCX
Chapter 6. Private registry implementation
Chapter 7. Operation
Chapter 8. Integrating container applications with other processes on z/OS
Chapter 9. zCX user administration
Chapter 10. Persistent data
Chapter 11. Swarm on zCX

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