This article explains how to deploy the official Photon OS 3.0 image provided by VMware with cloud-init using PowerShell. Cloud-init allows OS customization after the OVA deployment. You can configure the hostname, network setting, deploy SSH keys, install packages or just run any commands.
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VMware is moving their vCenter Server from Windows to the Linux based Photon OS. The following tips and tricks might come handy when working with the vCenter Service Appliance 6.7:
The following tips and tricks might come handy when working with the vCenter Service Appliance 6.5:
This post is a quick collection of commands used to configure VMwares recently released Photon OS, and to get started with Docker.
Photon is a technology preview of a minimal Linux container host. It is designed to have a small footprint and boot extremely quickly on VMware platforms. Photon is intended to invite collaboration around running containerized applications in a virtualized environment.
To get started with Photon, check this post.
On April 20th, 2015, VMware announced Photon, its own container-friendly Linux distribution. Photon is a technology preview of a small footprint Linux container host. It has been released as open source software and is available at GitHub.
This post explains how to install Photon in VMware Workstation, do some basic configuration and implement the first container.
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