SUMMARY.md

Summary

Photon OS 3.0

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• Introduction
  • Quick Start Links
• Overview
  • Introduction to Photon OS
  • Flavours
  • What's New in Photon OS 3.0
• Installation Guide
  • Downloading Photon OS
  • Upgrading to Photon OS 3.0
  • Build an ISO from the source code for Photon OS
    • Folder Layout
    • Build Prerequisites
    • Building the ISO
    • Use the Cached Toolchain and RPMS
    • Use Cached Sources
    • View Build Logs
  • Building Package or Kernel Modules Using a Script
  • Running Photon OS on vSphere
    • Prerequisites for Running Photon OS on vSphere
    • Importing the OVA for Photon OS 3.0
    • Installing the ISO Image for Photon OS 3.0
  • Running Photon OS on Fusion
    • Prerequisites for Running Photon OS on Fusion
    • Importing the OVA for Photon OS 3.0
    • Installing the ISO Image for Photon OS 3.0
  • Running Photon OS on Workstation
    • Prerequisites for Running Photon OS on Workstation
    • Importing the OVA for Photon OS 3.0
    • Installing the ISO Image for Photon OS 2.0
  • Running Photon OS on AWS EC2
    • Prerequisites for Running Photon OS on AWS EC2
    • Set Up Photon OS on EC2
    • Deploy a Containerized Application in Photon OS using SSH
    • Launch the Web Server with Cloud-Init
    • Terminate the AMI Instance
  • Running Photon OS on Microsoft Azure
    • Prerequisites for Running Photon OS on Azure
    • Set Up Azure Storage and Uploading the VHD
    • Remove Photon OS From Azure
  • Running Photon OS on Google Compute Engine
    • Prerequisites for Running Photon OS on GCE
    • Installing Photon OS on Google Compute Engine
  • Running Photon OS on Raspberry Pi 3
    • Prerequisites for Running Photon OS on Raspberry Pi 3
    • Installing Photon OS on Raspberry Pi 3
    • Enabling Rpi3 Interfaces using Device Tree
  • Deploying a Containerized Application in Photon OS
  • Installing Photon OS on Dell Gateways
    • Installing Photon OS on Dell Edge Gateway 500X
    • Installing Photon OS on Dell Edge Gateway 300X
  • Installing and Using Lightwave on Photon OS
    • Installing the Lightwave Server and Configuring It as a Domain Controller on a Photon Image
    • Installing the Lightwave Client on a Photon Image and Joining the Client to a Domain
    • Installing the Photon Management Daemon on a Lightwave Client
    • Remotely Upgrade a Single Photon OS Machine With Lightwave Client and Photon Management Daemon Installed
    • Remotely Upgrade Multiple Photon OS Machines With Lightwave Client and Photon Management Daemon Installed
  • Photon Management Daemon
    • Installing the pmd Package
    • Available APIs
• Administration Guide
  • Photon OS Packages
    • Examining the Packages in the SPECS Directory on Github
    • Looking at the Differences Between the Minimal and the Full Version
    • The Root Account and the sudo and su Commands
    • Photon OS Package Repositories
    • Examining Signed Packages
    • Building a Package from a Source RPM
    • Compiling C++ Code on the Minimal Version of Photon OS
  • Package Management in Photon OS with tdnf
    • Introduction to tdnf
    • Configuration Files and Repositories
    • Adding a New Repository
    • Configure a Repository
    • Adding the Dev Repository to Get New Packages from the GitHub Dev Branch
    • Standard Syntax for tdnf Commands
      • Options for Commands
      • Commands
  • Managing Services with systemd
    • Viewing Services
    • Controlling Services
    • Creating a Startup Service
    • Disabling the Photon OS httpd.service
    • Auditing System Events with auditd
    • Analyzing systemd Logs with journalctl
    • Migrating Scripts to systemd
    • Installing Sendmail
  • Managing the Network Configuration
    • Commands to Manage Network Service
    • Using the Network Configuration Manager
    • Use ip and ss Commands Instead of ifconfig and netstat
    • Configuring Network Interfaces
    • Setting a Static IP Address
    • Turning Off DHCP
    • Adding a DNS Server
    • Setting Up Networking for Multiple NICs
      • Combining DHCP and Static IP Addresses with IPv4 and IPv6
    • Clearing the Machine ID of a Cloned Instance for DHCP
    • Using Predictable Network Interface Names
    • Inspecting the Status of Network Links with networkctl
    • Network Debugging
    • Mounting a Network File System
    • Installing the Packages for tcpdump and netcat with tdnf
    • Network Configuration Manager - C API
    • Network Configuration Manager - Python API
  • Configure Wireless Networking
  • Prioritize eth0 Route Over wlan0
  • Cloud-Init on Photon OS
    • Cloud-Init Overview
    • Deploy Photon OS With cloud-init
    • Customizing Guest OS using Cloud-Init
    • Creating a Stand-Alone Photon Machine with cloud-init
    • Customizing a Photon OS Machine on EC2
    • Running a Photon OS Machine on GCE
  • Containers
    • Docker Containers
    • Kubernetes
  • Changing the Locale
  • Security Policy
    • Default Firewall Settings
    • Default Permissions and umask
    • Disabling TLS 1.0 to Improve Transport Layer Security
  • Photon RPM OSTree
    • Introduction
      • RPM-OSTree Overview
      • Why use RPM-OSTree in Photon?
      • Photon with RPM-OSTree installation profiles
      • Terminology
      • Sample code
      • How to read this book
      • RPM-OSTree in Photon OS 3.0
    • Installing a Photon RPM-OSTree host against default server repository
      • Who is this for?
      • Installing the ISO, step by step
    • Concepts in action
      • Querying the deployed filetrees
      • Bootable filetree version
      • Commit ID
      • OSname
      • Refspec
      • Deployments
    • Querying for commit, file and package metadata
      • Commit history
      • Listing file mappings
      • Listing configuration changes
      • Listing packages
      • Querying for package details
      • Why am I unable to install, update or delete packages?
    • Host updating operations
      • Upgrade overview
      • Incremental upgrade
      • Listing file differences
      • Listing package differences
      • Rollback
      • Installing Packages
      • Uninstalling Packages
      • Deleting a deployed filetree
      • Version skipping upgrade
      • Tracking parent commits
      • Resetting a branch to a previous commit
    • Creating a Photon RPM-OSTree Package
      • Composing your first OSTree repo
    • Installing a Photon RPM-OStree host against a custom server repository
      • Manual install of a custom host
      • Automated install of a custom host via kickstart
    • Automatic Updates
      • Enable Automatic Updates
    • File oriented server operations
      • Starting a fresh OSTree repo
      • Creating summary metadata
    • Package oriented server operations
      • JSON configuration file
      • Package addition, removal, upgrade
      • RPMS repository
      • Composing a tree
      • Automatic version prefix
      • Installing package updates
      • Creating server metadata
      • Starting a fresh OSTree repo
    • Remotes
      • Listing remotes
      • GPG signature verification
      • Switching repositories
      • Adding and removing remotes
      • List available branches
    • Running container applications between bootable images
      • Downloading a docker container appliance
      • Rebooting into an existing image
      • Reboot into a newly created image
    • Install or rebase to Photon OS 3.0
      • Composing your own RPM-OSTree Server
      • Installing an RPM-OSTree host
      • Rebasing a host from Photon 1.0 to 3.0
      • Creating a host raw image
• User Guide
  • Setting Up a Network PXE Boot Server
  • Working with Kickstart
  • Kickstart Through HTTP
    • Prerequisites
    • Procedure
    • Packer Template
    • packages_minimal.json File
  • Kubernetes on Photon OS
    • Prerequisites
    • Running Kubernetes on Photon OS
      • System Information
      • Prepare the Hosts
      • Configure Kubernetes Services on Master
      • Configure Kubernetes Services on Node
  • Mounting Remote File Systems
• Command-Line Reference
  • Command-line Interfaces
    • Photon Management Daemon Command-line Interface (pmd-cli)
    • Photon Network Manager Command-line Interface (netmgr)
• Troubleshooting Guide
  • Introduction
    • Systemd and TDNF
    • The Root Account and the sudo and su Commands
    • Checking the Version and Build Number
    • General Best Practices
    • Photon OS Logs
    • Troubleshooting Progression
  • Solutions to Common Problems
    • Boot in Emergency Mode
    • Resetting a Lost Root Password
    • Fixing Permissions on Network Configuration Files
    • Permitting Root Login with SSH
    • Fixing Sendmail
  • Troubleshooting Tools on Photon OS
    • Common Tools
    • Troubleshooting Tools Installed by Default
    • Installing Tools From Repositories
    • Linux Troubleshooting Tools
  • Troubleshooting With systemd
    • Enabling systemd Debug Shell During Boot
    • Troubleshooting Services with systemctl
    • Analyzing System Logs with journalctl
    • Inspecting Services with systemd-analyze
  • Network Troubleshooting
    • Managing the Network Configuration
    • Inspecting IP Addresses
    • Inspecting the Status of Network Links with networkctl
    • Network Debugging
    • Checking Firewall Rules
    • Inspect Network Settings with netmgr
  • File System Troubleshooting
    • Checking Disk Space
    • Adding a Disk and Partitioning It
    • Expanding Disk Partition
    • List Disk Partitions
    • File System Consistency Check Tool
    • Fixing File System Errors When fsck Fails
  • Troubleshooting Packages
  • Kernel Problems and Boot and Login Problems
    • Kernel Overview
    • Boot Process Overview
    • Blank Screen on Reboot
    • Investigating Unexpected Behavior
    • Investigating the Guest Kernel
    • Kernel Log Replication with VProbes
  • Performance Issues
    • General Guidelines
    • Throughput Performance
• Security Advisories