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![Photon](http://storage.googleapis.com/project-photon/vmw-logo-photon.svg "VMware Photon") |
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VMware Photon: Minimal Linux Container Host
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Photon OS is a minimal Linux container host designed to have a small footprint and tuned for VMware platforms. Photon is intended to invite collaboration around running containerized applications in a virtualized environment. |
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- Optimized for vSphere - Validated on and tuned for VMware product and provider platforms. |
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- Container support - Supports Docker, rkt, and the Pivotal Garden container specifications.
- Efficient lifecycle management - contains a new, open-source, yum-compatible package manager that will help make the system as small as possible, but preserve the robust yum package management capabilities. |
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This repository is intended for developers wishing to modify Photon and build their own customized ISO images or contribute to the code base. |
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Download pre-built [OVA](https://bintray.com/artifact/download/vmware/photon/photon-custom-1.0-a6f0f63-RC.ova) and [ISO](https://bintray.com/artifact/download/vmware/photon/photon-1.0-a6f0f63.iso) versions of the 1.0, Release Candidate. |
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An official Vagrant box is available on Hashicorp Atlas, to get started: `vagrant init vmware/photon`. A plugin to support Photon OS guests in Vagrant is available at https://github.com/vmware/vagrant-guests-photon. Some users have found that our Vagrant box requires VirtualBox 4.3 or later. If you have issues, please check your version. |
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For up-to-date documentation, see the [Docs](docs/) folder. |
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