4/7/2023 0 Comments Kitematic vmwareSince the last VMworld VMware has been talking about this concept of containers and VMs being better together, this kinda led to a lot of discussion about overhead of the hypervisor and each container needing it’s own OS, potential lock-in, etc. Once the deamon is running we can start to make REST API calls, for example retrieve the IP address of the Docker VM we previously created: appcatalyst vm create photon1 Info: Cloned VM from ‘/opt/vmware/appcatalyst/photonvm/photon.vmx’ to ‘/Users/filipv/Documents/AppCatalyst/photon1/photon1.vmx’Īppcatalyst vm list Info: VMs found in ‘/Users/filipv/Documents/AppCatalyst’ photon1Īppcatalyst vmpower on photon1 T10:18:38.530| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 2949 Info: Completed power op ‘on’ for VM at ‘/Users/filipv/Documents/AppCatalyst/photon1/photon1.vmx’Īppcatalyst guest getip photon1 192.168.2.128Īnd securely launch a Docker container via Project Photon:Īs mentioned before the idea is to interface with AppCatalyst via REST API calls, you can enable this by first starting the app catalyst-deamon and then going to port 8080 on your localhost. Since Project Photon is included in AppCatalyst it’s pretty easy to get started with deploying a Photon Linux Container Host. You can find the plugin for Vagrant here. Vagrant creates and configures virtual development environments, it can be seen as a higher-level wrapper to AppCatalyst. Developers build Vagrant files and then Vagrant up their deployment. ![]() When you download AppCatalyst, you can point docker-machine at it, start up a Photon instance almost instantly (since there’s no Linux ISO to download), and start using Docker.Īnother common use of the desktop hypervisor is with Vagrant. Once it is installed AppCatalyst does not appear under your Applications folder, instead you can use your Terminal to navigate to /opt/vmware/appcatalystĪs mentioned above AppCatalyst comes pre-bundled with Project Photon – VMware’s compact container host Linux distribution. You can download the Tech Preview of AppCatalyst here, it comes with an installer so it pretty easy to get up and running. AppCatalyst uses MacOS as its host operating system (i.e., the user must use MacOS 10.9.4 or later as their host operating system to use AppCatalyst). Panamax and Kitematic support are planned in the near future. The tool includes Project Photon (already announced in April), an open source minimal Linux container host, Docker Machine and integration with Vagrant. Currently a technology preview, VMware AppCatalyst offers developers a fast and easy way to replicate a private cloud locally on their desktop for building and testing containerized and microservices-based applications. VMware AppCatalyst is an API and Command Line Interface (CLI)-driven MacOS type 2 hypervisor (based on VMware Fusion but without the GUI, 3D graphics support, virtual USB support, and Windows guest support) that is purpose-built for developers, with the goal of bringing the datacenter environment to the desktop. Adrian CockcroftĪnd now at the recent DockerCon in San Francisco VMware announced the tech-preview of AppCatalyst and Project Bonneville. You don’t have meetings with other teams, you talk to their API instead. VMware has been doing a lot of work in the past around making it’s products more “DevOps” friendly with things like vRealize CloudClient a command-line utility that provides verb-based access with a unified interface across vCloud Automation Center APIs, and vRealize Code Stream which provides release automation and continuous delivery to enable frequent, reliable software releases, while reducing operational risks. I personally notice a lot of resistance in that enterprise customers understand the benefits, and some internal teams are pushing hard to incorporate these, but still a lot of people seem to adopt this “let’s wait and see / it’s just another fad” attitude. Now as VMware’s customers rightfully expect, the idea is to try and marry both worlds and make these new methods enterprise grade without loosing the original benefits. ![]() Gross oversimplification I know, but since devops is getting a lot of attention lately you’ll have no problem digging up articles and blogposts on that. ![]() Developers want speed, the operations teams want stability, both are trying to respond to the demands of the business which wants faster time to market. ![]() VMware has lot’s and lot’s of customers, running lot’s and lot’s of workloads, both dev and test workloads and production workloads, you know like, super duper important stuff that cannot, under any circumstance break.Īs the whole DevOps “movement” makes clear both developers and operations teams have different requirements and different responsibilities.
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