Photon OS: in either model, one thing is clear – the container runtime environment should be smaller and more efficient than traditional OS. In this context, we deliver the following Photon components:
This is Docker business as usual and what pretty much everyone does today: you instantiate a Linux OS, you install Docker on it and you start containers pulling Docker images from a registry. The second model assumes instantiating “docker images as VMs.” This is the VIC bucket.Īs we alluded to, this model involves a traditional “containers on top of VMs” model. The first model assumes instantiating “docker images as containers in VMs.” This is the Photon bucket. If you are curious about any of the above technologies (and what they deliver and how they deliver it), please read on.īefore we get into a brief description of each technology, it is important to understand they fall into two completely different categories.
vSphere Integrated Containers (also referred to as VIC).In this post, we are going to briefly outline our technologies and brands to help people better understand them. We noticed booth visitors had plenty of questions around container technologies and their relation to virtual machines, especially around some of the technologies we presented at DockerCon–some of which are meant to blur those boundaries. The VMware CNA team (along with the VMware cloud management, networking and storage teams) was there, and the traffic at the booth was astonishing. DockerCon 2016 is now over and it was a great success.