In this episode, we talk to Luis Carlos Silva, DevOps Solution Architect for IBM Z and Cloud software, about Z Development and Test Environment, Cloud support for DevOps tooling, and the new provisioning tools incorporated with ZD&T. Luis shares his journey from physics to IT computing through an object-oriented way of thinking, and how that plays in to his innovation with the ZD&T team. We discuss the story behind what inspired the new ZD&T provisioning tools as well. Stick around to the end to hear about the enablement Luis and team have on IBM Media Center, giving people who are new to ZD&T a solid foundation in the tooling and giving veteran users some great information on the latest and greatest!

Topics:

- Luis discusses is intercontinental career arc and how he ended up at IBM

- Z Development and Test Environment

- ZD&T Provisioning tools

- Cloud support for ZD&T

And be sure to check out past episodes of the Z DevOps Talks podcast!

Links related to this episode:

- IBM Z Development and Test Environment product page

- Quick Look at Provisioning a ZD&T Test Environment

- ZD&T: Provisioning a Docker Target Environment

- New! ZD&T zTrial software trial