Questions tagged [photon-os]
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Unable to use docker due to ZScaler and certificate issues
I have VMware Photon OS running in VMware Player. This will be used as the host OS to run Docker containers.
However, since I'm behind a ZScaler, I'm having issues running commands that access external resources. E.g. docker pull python gives me the…

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How to add a new group and user to that group in Photon OS
Creating a Docker image from vmware/photon:2.0
I want to run the application inside that container as a user different than root.
So, trying to create a new group and add user to it by following command:
groupadd -r new-group && useradd -r -g…

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Photon vmware pros and cons
As a newbie to Photon, I have the following questions:
It looks like VMware is trying to create a parallel container technology to Docker. Since docker is more mature at this stage, is there any benefit/advantage to using photon?
I understand that…

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Why java has a huge memory footprint in docker container
Firstly my setup details.
I have a remote linux based server where I am running my containerised docker application which has java on jdk 11 and have photon os as the base…

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File system mounted to Docker Container with user-remap
The root requirement was to harden Docker in such way that there are no privilege escalation and container should run non root user
I used user-remap feature for this purpose.
The user-remap resolved the above two issue but it created anther…

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How to install uidmap package for docker rootless
I am using photonos and it is required that you install uidmap to run docker in rootless mode. Find it strange photonos dosent have this package. is there a reason for this? is photon os secure enough not to require this? If not and it is advised to…

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Issues reaching docker containers on Linux server running Photon OS 4.0
We have a Linux server which runs Photon OS 4.0. We use this server to run docker containers. Prior to updating to Photon OS 4.0, the server was running Photon OS 3.0. All the containers in this server was running as expected with no issues. However…

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Logging Methods on Photon OS linux -my app log file is not created on the specified location by the application
I have small application written in golang and i have mentioned a path to create a log file in order to track the application flow. but as soon as app started the log files created on both of my ubuntu fedora version, but log does not created on…

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Fluent-bit with java
I'm trying to send the logs from a basic java maven project to fluent-bit configured on a remote machine. Fluent-bit would then write them to a file. This is my basic java configuration.
Java
private final static Logger logger =…

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Unable to change GO version in PhotonOS
I have deployed PhotonOS using directions from photon and VIC configuration, while running command docker run -v $(pwd):/go/src/github.com/vmware/vic \-w /go/src/github.com/vmware/vic golang:1.6 make all
an Error appears:
Please install go1.7…

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