Extend your IBM z/OS ecosystem with containerized applications in a Red Hat OpenShift cluster on z/OS

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.

Features

• **Self-contained Red Hat OpenShift cluster: **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.
• **Enterprise-ready Kubernetes: **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.
• **Colocation of workloads: **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.
• **Inherit disaster recovery: **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.
• **Enterprise-grade container orchestration: **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.
• **Operational management consistent with z/OS: **Seamlessly integrates into the existing z/OS environment, ensuring consistent operational management that aligns with established z/OS processes and standards.
• **Flexible application deployment: **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.

Benefits

• **Seamless integration with z/OS: **Allows containerized Linux on IBM Z applications to run alongside native z/OS workloads by using the robust QoS of z/OS for improved performance, reliability and security.
• **Enterprise-level container orchestration: **Provides comprehensive container orchestration capabilities through Red Hat OpenShift, enabling modern application provisioning, deployment and management within the trusted IBM Z environment.
• **Agility and flexibility: **Facilitates agile and flexible deployment of containerized Linux on IBM Z applications, supporting modernization efforts by enabling quick, scalable and efficient deployment within a self-contained Red Hat OpenShift cluster.