Running Platypus in Docker on Photon with AppCatalyst

Written by Sam McGeown
Published on 3/2/2016 - Read in about 1 min (84 words)

Just a quick little post this morning! Anyone who works with the vRealize Automation APIs should definitely check out Grant Orchard and Roman Tarnavski’s awesome little side project, Platypus .

It only took me a couple of minutes to get it running on my MacBook - here’s how!

Download and install AppCatalyst

Open a new terminal window

Create a new VM called “photon"

Power it on

Get the VM’s IP address

SSH to the IP

Run the Platypus docker image:

Browse to the interface:

 

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