RPM Installation on Photon OS

Photon Controller can be installed using RPMs on Photon OS. To pull latest RPMs and install using TDNF command line tool on Photon OS, you need to create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/photon-controller.repo and add the following content into it.

[photon-controller]
name=VMware Photon Controller Core Services
baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon-controller/photonos1.0/v1.0.0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/VMWARE-RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=True

After the file is created, run the following command to refresh the tdnf repo cache.

tdnf makecache

And now you can install Photon Controller using the following command:

tdnf install photon-controller

Trying bleeding edge development bits

If you want to try out the latest code from the development branch, you need to replace the baseurl in the repo file with either one of the following URLs. The stable development branch is at this URL:

baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon-controller/photonos1.0/stable

The latest development branch, which might be unstable at times, is at this URL:

baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon-controller/photonos1.0/develop