In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we used Ubuntu as the guest OS of our target instances. In Part 3 we will show how to use VMware’s Photon OS as our guest OS.
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The main reason to use Photon OS is that it is open-sourced, it has a small footprint and it is optimised for VMware vSphere.
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