IBM® zCX Foundation for Red Hat® OpenShift® (zCX for Red Hat OpenShift) enables the agile and flexible deployment of containerized Linux® on IBM Z® applications within a self-contained Red Hat OpenShift cluster, seamlessly integrating with the IBM z/OS® ecosystem.
Modernize your IBM z/OS ecosystem with IBM zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift, allowing for the deployment of containerized Linux on IBM Z applications within a self-contained Red Hat OpenShift cluster. This solution enables the colocation of applications and workloads by using z/OS Qualities of Service (QoS) while providing enterprise-level container orchestration and management.
By integrating containerized Linux on IBM Z applications with z/OS, developers can extend and enhance their existing infrastructure with the agility and flexibility needed to support modern application demands.
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Provides a fully integrated Red Hat OpenShift cluster within the IBM z/OS environment, allowing seamless deployment and management of containerized Linux on IBM Z applications.
Uses Red Hat OpenShift’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform to manage containerized applications across hybrid cloud, multicloud and edge environments, enabling a consistent and scalable application deployment strategy.
Minimizes latency by colocating containerized applications alongside native z/OS workloads, optimizing performance, resource utilization and data access by running them on the same physical hardware.
Inherits the robust z/OS QoS, including high availability, security and workload management, and provides integrated disaster recovery with automatic restart capabilities by using z/OS DR/GDPS.
Uses Red Hat OpenShift’s advanced container orchestration features, offering automated deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications, fully integrated within the IBM Z environment.
Seamlessly integrates into the existing z/OS environment, ensuring consistent operational management that aligns with established z/OS processes and standards.
Supports the deployment of containerized applications and software, providing the agility to integrate modern, containerized applications with the existing z/OS infrastructure while maintaining compatibility with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.
zCX for Red Hat OpenShift requires an IBM z14® or higher server.
zCX for Red Hat OpenShift requires z/OS 2.4 or higher.
The z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) interface is used to provision, deprovision and manage zCX for Red Hat OpenShift appliance instances. Therefore, z/OSMF must be active in a system on the sysplex where you are deploying a zCX for Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
z/OS address spaces for zCX for Red Hat OpenShift are zIIP -eligible. Most zCX for Red Hat OpenShift processing can be dispatched on available zIIP processors.
This product, IBM zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift, is an IBM product. Therefore, primary service and support are offered through IBM. Purchase of zCX for Red Hat OpenShift provides entitlement to Red Hat OpenShift. If you experience any issues with zCX for Red Hat OpenShift, open a case here: http://www.ibm.com/mysupport