What is Photon OS™
+ +Photon OS™ 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 OS™ is intended to invite collaboration around running containerized applications in a virtualized environment.
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- Optimized for vSphere - Validated on VMware product and provider platforms. +
- Container support - Compatible with 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. +
See the FAQ for more information.
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