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Collection of VMware Project Photon & Lightwave Resources/Links

04.20.2015 by William Lam // 1 Comment

Today is a very exciting day for VMware and later this morning, the new Cloud Native Apps team under Kit Colbert will be hosting an online event (replayed of the event will be posted here) to talk more about Next-Generation Apps on VMware as well as diving into more details on two specific initiatives that have recently been open sourced: Project Photon and Lightwave. In anticipation of the flood of information, I thought it would be useful to aggregate all the resources, links and articles in a single place for ease of consumption. This page will be updated through out the day, let me know if there is anything I am missing.

Cloud Native Apps Team

  • Official Blog Announcement: Cloud-Native Apps: Making the Developer a First-Class User of the Datacenter
  • Official Twitter: @cloudnativeapps
  • Follow Cloud Native Apps members on Twitter using this CNA List: https://twitter.com/lamw/lists/vmware-cloud-native-apps1
  • VMware Open Source GitHub: http://vmware.github.io/

 Photon

vmware-photon
Photon is an open-source lightweight Linux container host runtime optimized for running containers optimized for VMware’s hypervisor.

  • VMware Official Blog Announcement: http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-photon/
  • YouTube Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA6flb7otNg
  • Github: https://vmware.github.io/photon/
    • Instructions to deploy on vSphere 5.5 & 6.0
    • Instructions to deploy on Workstation/Fusion
    • Instructions to deploy on vCloud Air
    • Instructions to deploy on Google Compute Engine
  • Twitter: @vmwarephoton
  • VMTN Community Forum: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/devops/project-photon
  • Google Group for Developers: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vmware-photon-dev
  • Google Group for Announcements: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vmware-photon-announce
  • FAQ: https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions

 Lightwave

vmware-lightwave
Lightwave is an open-source container identity and access control solution.

  • VMware Official Blog Announcement: http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-lightwave
  • YouTube Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmE_Rl3ELc
  • Github: https://vmware.github.io/lightwave/
  • Twitter: @vmwarelightwave
  • VMTN Community Forum: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/devops/project-lightwave

Partner Integration News:

  • CoreOS - VMware Ships rkt and Supports App Container Spec
  • HashiCorp - Vagrant Up and Running with VMware’s Project Photon
  • Mesosphere - We’re tackling container security at scale with VMware
  • Pivotal - Lattice – Container Clustering Simplified

Community Blog Articles

  • Josh Gray - Introducing VMware Project Photon
  • Andrew Mauro - VMware cloud-native applications vision
  • Vladan SEGET - VMware Cloud-Native Applications: Lightwave, Photon and more…
  • Forbes - VMware Introduces New Open Source Projects To Enable The Microservices Future
  • Chris Mutcher - Thoughts on the VMware Project Photon Announcement
  • Eric Wright - Fire Photon Torpedoes! Getting Started with VMware Photon Linux
  • The Register - VMware fires Photon torpedo – a homegrown Linux for microservices
  • Virtualization Review  - VMware Launches Two Open Source Container Projects
  • TechRepublic - New VMware open-source tools make Docker safe for the enterprise
  • ComputerWorld - VMware preps its virtualization stack for Docker
  • InformationWeek - VMware Rides Container Wave With Open Source Projects
  • ITWorld - VMware prepares its virtualization stack for Docker
  • SDX Central - VMware Creates Its Own Linux OS for Containers
  • MartijnBaeck - Project Photon and Lightwave, the start of a new VMware era
  • Scott Lowe - Running Photon on Fusion via Vagrant
  • Anthony Spiteri - VMware Photon: vCloud Air Network Deployment
  • Melissa Palmer - Lightwave and Photon Measured from a Rocket, VMware Enhances Cloud-Native Apps
  • Jacob Ludriks - Trying out Docker with VMWare Photon and Docker CLI for Windows
  • Romain Decker - Getting Started with VMware Project Photon

More from my site

  • Cloud Native Apps, Containers & Docker sessions at VMworld
  • How to configure shared folders in VMware AppCatalyst?
  • Quickly getting started with VMware AppCatalyst & AppCatalyst Vagrant Plugin
  • Test driving ContainerX on VMware vSphere
  • Getting Started with Tech Preview of Docker Volume Driver for vSphere

Categories // Automation, Cloud Native, Docker Tags // cloud native apps, container, DevOps, LightWave, Photon

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  1. *protectedAnkit says

    04/04/2017 at 2:02 am

    It will be really awesome if you could describe in your words what project lightwave is! I love this website for learning anything related to VMware! 🙂

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