Enable support on s390x for KEDA

[zroubalik]

Discussed in #5584

^{Originally posted by dilipgb March 8, 2024}
Hi, we are from IBM Z team working on enabling knative on s390x architecture. Since Knative started using KEDA as the event based autoscaler for kafka we are looking to enable support for KEDA. I have successful in building images for s390x locally and patched with knative. Our tests are successful but looking for images to be available to end users via official releases. I'm raising this question to understand what are community thoughts and any guidelines from community about enablement?

[JorTurFer]

I think that we can support s390x and I like the idea, but we need to ensure that we have resources to test and cover KEDA on that architecture. I'm wondering if IBM can provide us a s390x machine that we can use and configure by us to support this new architecture @dilipgb

I'm also afraid about what will happen if we lose the capability of testing that arch, should we drop the support?

I've seen this page to request a machine for OSS -> https://community.ibm.com/zsystems/form/l1cc-oss-vm-request/
Should we just fulfil the process? Actually, I'm willing to request it to support this new architecture if it's just fulfilling the form

[dilipgb]

@JorTurFer the machine assigned to you will be permanent and will not be scheduled to delete. Don't worry about losing the machine. Yes we need to fill the form and submit it, the OSS team in IBM will review request and provide the virtual machine (we can follow up on the request internally once we have the ticket number). Our team is committed to work closely in future too and collabrate in case of issues in future related to s390x architecture.

[JorTurFer]

I've just requested the resources :)

I don't have any ticket number, but I guess that it's a process that needs to be reviewed by humans and someone will contact me by email (I've not received any email confirmation either)