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From an infrastructure perspective, one of the most important aspects of a docker environment is, that applications can be run without the need of the overhead of an operating system. Furthermore containers be bundled in a single docker application.
However, if you don’t have a Docker Environment yet, this guide will show you a simple and fast way to get one.
Single host deployment
The following steps introduces to run portrait on single virtual machine and focuses on VMware ESXi - other hypervisor scenarios will work in the same fashion.
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Photon OS can be either downloaded as ISO or as OVA. In this tutorial we use OVA, because that’s the fastest way to get it up and running.
Download OVA with virtual hardware v13 (UEFI Secure Boot) to your local computer from here: https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Downloading-Photon-OS#downloading-photon-os-30-ga
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