title: Photon vmware pros and cons
body: <p>As a newbie to Photon, I have the following questions:</p>
  
  <p>It looks like VMware is trying to create a parallel container technology to Docker.  Since docker is more mature at this stage, is there any benefit/advantage to using photon?</p>
  
  <p>I understand that one can potentially create an AWS like environment on premise with photon (takes care of port exposure since I can spin up a new service instance on a new photon container - bare metal vs pulling a docker image).</p>
  
  <p>Does it add another layer of complexity to manage /maintain?  Docker can be run on minimal linux on the host.  So what do I gain?  It looks like it is a better way of partitioning a server into smaller VMs.</p>
  
  <p>Sorry, for the rambling questions.  I am not sure if there is a value add apart from AWS like environment I can create with it.  even, that I am not sure.
  Thanks</p>