![Photon](http://storage.googleapis.com/project-photon/vmw-logo-photon.svg "VMware Photon")

**Welcome to VMware Photon OS: Linux Container Host**
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Photon OS™ is an open source Linux container host optimized for cloud-native applications, cloud platforms, and VMware infrastructure. Photon OS provides a secure run-time environment for efficiently running containers. For an overview, see [https://vmware.github.io/photon/](#https://vmware.github.io/photon/).

This repository is intended for developers who want to modify Photon and build their own customized ISO images or contribute to the code base.

**Photon OS 2.0 is here!**
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Photon OS 2.0 introduces new security and OS management capabilities, along with new and updated packages for Cloud native applications and VMware appliances. 

- For download instructions and links to Photon OS binaries, go to the [Download Guide in the github wiki](https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Downloading-Photon-OS).
- For an overview of changes, see [What's New in Photon OS 2.0 in the github wiki](https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/What-is-New-in-Photon-OS-2.0).

**Photon OS Resources**
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- **Documentation**: See the [Docs](docs/) folder.
- **Security Updates**: Visit [Security-Advisories](https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Advisories).
- **Vagrant box**: 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](#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.