I found a great article from William Lam about how to build an Photon OS virtual appliance which includes OVF settings for configuration. During my initial tests I faced some issues like the virtual machine network did not connect properly and others. First I had changed the existing scripts to work with the vmware-iso …

Requirements: Photon OS based virtual machine VMware vRealize Log Insight or any other Syslog server Configuration of Photon OS: Install rsyslog tdnf install rsyslog Extend /etc/rsyslog.conf with Syslog Server target replace the following line: *.* @@remote-host:514 with for example (syslog.local is the IP or name of …

This technical overview describes Photon OS, illustrates its role in VMware’s cloud computing architecture, and explains the part it plays in solving a range of problems that would otherwise limit the deployment of cloud-native applications. VMware deploying cloud native apps with photon os

VMware has released a new technical white paper about deploying cloud native apps with photon os.