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IBM Brings OpenShift Cluster Management Native On Power Iron

March 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you went out to GitHub and grabbed the source code for the Kubernetes cloud controller, you could compile it in C/C++ or set up the runtimes for the Python chunks of it, and you would probably find some Go buried in there and you could the toolchain and get the raw Kubernetes to work on Linux partitions; you might even be able to get it to run natively on AIX, and if you were really clever, you might even be able to get it to run on IBM i.

But you wouldn’t have very much that was useful given …
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IBM Keeps OpenShift Up To Speed On Power Systems

November 16, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

For more than two years now, as we have previously reported, there have been a number of ways to bring Kubernetes container control to the Power Systems platform, including Docker Enterprise Edition, IBM Cloud Private, and Red Hat OpenShift. In the wake of the Red Hat acquisition, it is pretty clear that OpenShift will be the container environment of choice on IBM System z and Power Systems machines on premises and on these machines as well as X86 iron deployed on the IBM Cloud.

To that end, we find in announcement letter 220-439 that IBM’s Red Hat unit has …
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