#Compatible Cloud Images

   1. GCE - Google Compute Engine
 
   2. AMI - Amazon Machine Image
 
   3. Azure
 
   4. OVA
 
   5. Photon-bosh-stemcell

 #How to build cloud images

 sudo make cloud-image IMG_NAME=image-name

 
 image-name : gce/ami/azure/ova
 
 The output of the build process produces the following file formats:

 GCE - A tar file consisting of disk.raw as the raw disk file 

 AMI - A raw disk file

 Azure - A vhd file

 OVA - An ova file (vmdk + ovf)
 
 sudo make cloud-image-all builds all the cloud images
 

 ###How to build Photon bosh-stemcell
 
 Please follow the link to [ build ] (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh/blob/develop/bosh-stemcell/README.md) Photon bosh-stemcell
 

 #How to create running instances in the cloud

 ##GCE

 
 The tar file can be uploaded to Google's cloud storage and an instance can be created after creating an image from the tar file. You will need Google Cloud sdk on host machine to upload the image and create instances
 

 ####Install google cloud sdk on host machine

 curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash
 

 ####Upload the tar file
 gsutil cp photon-gce.tar.gz gs://bucket-name

 ####Create image
 gcloud compute --project project-id images create image-name --description description --source-uri https://storage.googleapis.com/bucket-name/photon-gce.tar.gz

 ####Create instance of GCE
 gcloud compute --project project-id instances create instance-name --zone "us-central1-f" --machine-type "n1-standard-1" other-options

 
 You can create instances also from Google developer console
 
 

 ##AMI

 Install the [AWS CLI] (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html#install-bundle-other-os)

 ####Bundle the image
 ec2-bundle-image -c cert.pem -k private-key.pem -u $AWS_USER_ID --arch x86_64 --image photon-ami.raw --destination directory-name

 ####Upload the bundle
 ec2-upload-bundle --manifest directory-name/photon-ami.raw.manifest.xml --bucket bucket-name --access-key $AWS_ACCESS_KEY --secret-key $AWS_SECRET_KEY
 ####Register the AMI
 ec2-register bucket-name/photon-ami.raw.manifest.xml --name name --architecture x86_64 --virtualization-type hvm

 
 You can now launch instances using AWS console
 
 

 ##AZURE
 
 Install the [Azure CLI] (https://www.npmjs.com/package/azure)
 
 Install [QEMU](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Installing_QEMU)

 ####Create the image
 azure vm image create image_name path_to_vhd -l "West US" -o linux

 
 Create running VM instances using Azure management portal
 
 

 ##OVA

 The ova image uses a custom linux kernel, which is an optimized kernel based on version 4.1.3. Two ova files are generated from build - photon-ova.ova and photon-custom.ova. The password for photon-ova.ova should be changed using guest customization options when uploading to vCA. Photon-custom.ova is generated with the password changeme, intended for use with Fusion/Workstation.

 
 ####Pre-requisites
 
 [VDDK 6.0] (https://developercenter.vmware.com/web/sdk/60/vddk)
 

 	- You must copy the libraries to /usr/lib/vmware and run ldconfig

 	- Also copy the include files to /usr/include
 

 [OVFTOOL] (https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OVFTOOL410&productId=491)

 ##Photon Bosh
 
 Please refer [bosh docs] (http://bosh.io/docs) to deploy BOSH on Photon 

 ##Links to the pre-built TP2 images

 [GCE] (https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon/gce/1.0TP2/x86_64/photon-1.0TP2.tar.gz)  Alternatively, you can download the source tar file from the [following] (https://console.developers.google.com/m/cloudstorage/b/photon-1-0-tp2/o/photon-gce.tar.gz) Google cloud storage bucket location

 
 [Azure] (https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon/azure/1.0TP2/x86_64/photon-1.0TP2.vhd)
 
 [AMI] (https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon/ami/1.0TP2/x86_64/photon-1.0TP2.tar.gz)
 
 [OVA for Workstation/Fusion] (https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon/ova/1.0TP2/x86_64/photon-1.0TP2.ova)
 

 [vSphere Photon bosh-stemcell] (https://bintray.com/artifact/download/vmware/photon/vSpherePhotonStemcell/1.0TP2/bosh-stemcell-0000-vsphere-esxi-photon-TP2-go_agent.tgz)