Request for direction - installing Deis Workflow on Linux on System Z - s390x

[rishi.in...@gmail.com]

Folks,

I am exploring Deis Wokflow on s390x architecture (Linux on Z running Ubuntu Xenial).  I already have Docker and Kubernetes running on s390x.  It seems like I will need to recompile Workflow CLI/Helm client on s390x and create bunch of compatible Docker containers to run Deis workflow components.  Are there any pointers on enabling Deis Workflow on a non-x86 architecture?

Incidentally is it fair to compare Deis Workflow to OpenShift Origin?  Lot of concepts seem to overlap (use of Docker/Kuber/Source To Image). 

Thanks.

[Matthew Fisher]

> Are there any pointers on enabling Deis Workflow on a non-x86 architecture?

No pointers here that I'm aware of! Workflow is simply a set of Docker
containers running on Kubernetes, so as long as Docker containers can
run on s390x architecture, I don't see any issues there.

> Incidentally is it fair to compare Deis Workflow to OpenShift Origin?

Yes, it's quite fair to compare the two. Both platforms are known as
Platforms as a Service (PaaS for short). Both have taken inspiration
from Heroku in their v1 counterparts, but now have expanded into the
Kubernetes/Docker space of things.

Matt

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[rishi.in...@gmail.com]

Thanks Matt.

I ran the Makefile for workflow-cli but it pulled x86 Docker images (quay.io/deis/go-dev) and bunch of x86 binaries resulting in exec format error on s390x architecture.  I will now have to rebuild all those Docker images to be able to run on this platform.  I am hoping Dockerfile for each workflow component exists.  Will continue to explore.

[Matthew Fisher]

Yes, they all exist and are all on our github repositories at
https://github.com/deis/. For example the controller can be found at
https://github.com/deis/controller, the database at
https://github.com/deis/postgres, etc.

Matt

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