Copr is building native s390x again

[Jiri Kyjovsky]

Hello maintainers,

We are now able to use native s390x builders for Copr again.

However, the cloud provider offering the s390x architecture plans to
deprecate its service by the end of this year. Until then, we expect to
continue using its resources. In the meantime, we will work on finding a
replacement solution, but we cannot guarantee that one will be available in
time :/

Best regards,
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Jiri Kyjovsky

Associate Software Engineer, CPT

Red Hat https://www.redhat.com

Brno, Czech Republic

https://www.redhat.com

[Eric Boucher]

That great news !

Did you checked with IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud ? 
They seems oriented to allow such use as Open Source project to use theses hardware for free.

[Pavel Raiskup]

Hello Eric, sorry I missed your email. We haven't looked into it further;
last
time we checked, it seemed the community cloud only offers "long-lived" VMs
on
demand. In Copr, however, we need a way to spin up short-lived VMs, and for
security reasons, we can never reuse a VM for a different user.

Fedora Copr uses IBM sponsored community acount in IBM Cloud.
Pavel

On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM Eric Boucher via copr-devel <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> That great news !
>
> Did you checked with IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud ?
> They seems oriented to allow such use as Open Source project to use theses
> hardware for free.
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