I am very excited that we have just announced zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift. This is an IBM offering of Openshift Container Platform for the z/OS Operating system. It provides all the material to install and run OpenShift on the z/OS zCX virtualization engine.

Purchasing this offering will entitle the client to a single core license to Red Hat’s OpenShift product. So slightly different packaging from other OpenShift offerings, this one comes from IBM, like the limited OpenShift entitlement in an IBM CloudPak. Red Hat will provide backend support for the IBM offering but is not going to list the IBM offering on their site or sell the offering directly.

A typical OpenShift on zCX setup would be 5 zCX servers, 3 control plane and 2 worker nodes. There are other requirements such as a DNS, loadbalancer, and file services. Once you have a cluster you can run many different kinds of workloads in that cluster through containers.

IBM’s strategy around OpenShift container platform now even runs on z/OS!

To learn more https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zcxrhos/1.1.0