[kata-dev] Kata on Mainframes

yash jain ydjainopensource at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 13:02:04 UTC 2018


Hi,

Good news. We have decided to finally upstream our work to Kata.

If there are no objections, I will have some Z nodes join the existing
Jenkins CI cluster by next week.

Looking forward to working with you.

Thanks,
Yash


On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 2:54 AM yash jain <ydjainopensource at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Eric  Thanks a lot will reach out if I need help.
>
> @Anne, @jbryce,  Thank you but the legal hurdles are not from your side
> but ours. I don't know much but I have been told that theres a lot of high
> performance networking code optimized for Z which IBM wishes to include in
> the fork and won't like it going out of their control. Second, CI access
> for open source is proving difficult without the project residing under a
> IBM/ IBM allied company.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 2:06 AM Ernst, Eric <eric.ernst at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Great data-point, thanks Yash.
>>
>>
>>
>> Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have questions on the design or if you
>> find anything unexpected from a usability, compatibility, or performance
>> perspective.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *yash jain <ydjainopensource at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 10:39 AM
>> *To: *"kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io" <
>> kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io>
>> *Subject: *[kata-dev] Kata on Mainframes
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am an intern with the Open Mainframe Project
>> <https://www.openmainframeproject.org/>.
>>
>>
>>
>> First off, you guys are doing an awesome job actively developing Kata.
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>>
>>
>> Second, we were initially working on porting gvisor. However, considering
>> the stability and performance of Kata, we have decided to drop gvisor and
>> we will now be working on porting Kata to the IBM Z mainframe platform.
>> This fork would as of now reside under Qata Containers. I would personally
>> love to have the port incorporated into Qata however, some managerial and
>> legal issues remain a hurdle. Once those are sorted and if the community
>> agrees, we would love to merge the port into Kata.
>>
>>
>>
>> The port is not complete yet. Hence, its not publicly available yet. I am
>> just writing this mail to thank you and inform you about the same.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Yash D Jain
>>
>> Github    : @ydjainopensource <https://github.com/ydjainopensource>
>>
>> Twitter    : @Yash_D_Jain <https://twitter.com/Yash_D_Jain>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Yash D Jain
> Github    : @ydjainopensource <https://github.com/ydjainopensource>
> Twitter    : @Yash_D_Jain <https://twitter.com/Yash_D_Jain>
> LinkedIn : in/yash-d-jain <https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-d-jain/>
>
>

-- 
Thanks

Yash D Jain
Github    : @ydjainopensource <https://github.com/ydjainopensource>
Twitter    : @Yash_D_Jain <https://twitter.com/Yash_D_Jain>
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