Wishlist: ppc64le architecture support for OpenEBS

[tidux]

With an increasing number of Docker images supporting POWER architecture servers, it has become reasonable to run Kubernetes on IBM or OpenPOWER hardware. Many of these servers include high storage capacity/bandwidth, so OpenEBS would be a good fit.

[orville-wright]

Hi @tidux what Linux Distro runs on POWER arch?
We currently don't have any Eng/Dev/QA POWER Hardware, so do you know of any community members or Vendors that would consider donating time on their POWER infra so that we could test & QA ?

[tidux]

Red Hat is probably your best bet since IBM owns both Red Hat and the underlying hardware. RHEL has supported ppc64 for a few releases. Other than RHEL and its clones it's mostly Debian, Gentoo, and Alpine on ppc64.

EDIT: Red Hat also owns a Kubernetes distro OpenShift so maybe pitch OpenShift+OpenEBS+POWER?