<img src="https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/files/2020/10/Photon-Propotionate-576x324.png">

<a href="https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Downloading-Photon-OS" target="_blank">Download</a><p>

## **Default login password for Photon OVA**

root / changeme

## **Set hostname**

hostnamectl set-hostname Photon01

## **Configure Network**

Create the network configuration file

cat > /etc/systemd/network/10-static-en.network << "EOF"

[Match]
Name=eth0

[Network]
Address=198.51.0.2/24
Gateway=198.51.0.1
DNS=192.51.0.1
EOF

Change network configuration file permission

chmod 644 /etc/systemd/network/10-static-en.network

Restart network service

systemctl restart systemd-networkd

## Configure NTP servers

vi /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf

Add timeservers under [Time]

[Time]
NTP=10.34.56.78

## **Set timezone (Hong Kong)**

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Hong_Kong /etc/localtime

## **Disable password aging for root user (Optional)**

# -I Set password inactive after expiration to INACTIVE
# -m Set minimum number of days before password change to MIN_DAYS
# -M Set maximum number of days before password change to MAX_DAYS
# -E Set account expiration date to EXPIRE_DATE

chage -I -1 -m 0 -M 99999 -E -1 root

## **Install docker-compose**
<a href="https://github.com/docker/compose/releases" target="_blank">docker-compose download</a><p>

curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.21.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

## **Start and Enable docker service**

#Start docker and enable it to be started at boot time
systemctl start docker
systemctl enable docker

## **Enable Ping**

iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT