erlang

Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

See the official website for more information

This image is built by IBM to run on the IBM Z architecture and is not affiliated with any other community that provides a version of this image.

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License

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As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.

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Versions

Use the pull string below for the version of this image you require.

25.3.0	docker pull icr.io/ibmz/erlang@sha256:c3782a47b042f4fd23a26d496d988aaeeafaa88c77532bd827e0f40304f94a93	Vulnerability Report	07-22-2025
25.0.4	docker pull icr.io/ibmz/erlang@sha256:8fa1ddd5b79e4b513f8c59dbc9dcff27810b3cf56b6963c1213ba814c5d72087	Vulnerability Report	07-22-2025
24.3.4	docker pull icr.io/ibmz/erlang@sha256:dea3dc8bdf8cb6ab45f12841a8c00fc5bd335b84b7b598076dd576ecf209e405	Vulnerability Report	07-22-2025
Version	Pull String	Security (IBM Cloud)	Created

Usage Notes

Run it as the REPL:

docker run -it --rm icr.io/ibmz/erlang:[version]

Run an Erlang escript:

Create a Dockerfile that includes the Erlang escript that you want to run.

FROM icr.io/ibmz/erlang:[version]

WORKDIR /home

COPY script.erl .

CMD [ "escript", "script.erl" ]

Build the image:

docker build -t script-image  .

Run a container using the image that you just built:

docker run --name script-container script-image