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Gregory Murray authored on 2016/06/16 13:41:42
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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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+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 and Linux 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.
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+- Optimized for vSphere - Leveraging more than a decade of experience validating guest operating systems, Photon OS is thoroughly validated on vSphere; and, because VMware is focused on the vSphere platform, we're able to highly tune the Photon OS kernel for VMware product and provider platforms
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+- Container support - Compatible with container runtimes, like Docker, and container scheduling frameworks, like Kubernetes.
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 - 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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+This repository is intended for developers wishing to modify Photon, 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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+To download Photon OS binaries, visit [Downloading Photon OS](https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Downloading-Photon-OS).
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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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