AppCatalyst

The past year has seen tremendous growth and support for Containerization within the Development space. Containers provide a fast and easy way to fire up a multitude of different development, test, and even production environments. Unfortunately Docker does not run natively on OSX, an abstraction layer is needed to create a Container Runtime Host for the Docker service to run on. Enter VMware AppCatalyst and Project Photon: Project Photon: A lightweight purpose built Linux Container Runtime Host currently released as an Open Source Tech Preview project by VMware AppCatalyst: A CLI/RESTful API driven lightweight hypervisor for OSX which provides a perfect environment for running Photon instances hosting Docker services The goal of this article is to walk the user through the initial configuration steps required to integrate VMware AppCatalyst with IntelliJ IDEA....