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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.

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Single Host Deployment

The following steps introduces will introduce you to run portrait on single virtual machine and focuses on VMware ESXi - other hypervisor scenarios will work in the same fashion.

Prerequisites

For this article, you will need the following setup:

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Photon OS™ is an open source, minimal Linux container host that is optimized for cloud-native applications, cloud platforms, and VMware infrastructure. Due to ARM64 support, it will also work in Edge and IoT environments. By minimizing the number of packages, focusing on security, and providing advanced lifecycle management, Photon OS delivers just enough of a Linux operating system to efficiently run containers on VMware vSphere, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

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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.

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Setup docker

Inside the machine, execute the following commands:

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