I got my management to agree that it’s worth the $5 a month for everyone’s productivity.
Hopefully Podman fixes their volume mounting problems and we can just start using that eventually.
Ask HN: What are you going to use instead of Docker Desktop for macOS?
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#12I got my management to agree that it’s worth the $5 a month for everyone’s productivity. Hopefully Podman fixes their volume mounting problems and we can just start using that eventually.
Ah man, that must be a magical place. I spent months (on-and-off) trying to convince my company to do this and failed. I hope they figure it out, because while I worked around it for my needs, I can't imagine I'm the only person who used Docker Desktop at the company, and it genuinely worries me that while IT considers it unapproved software that it won't stop its usage.
Re: Ask HN: What are you going to use instead of Docker Desktop for macOS?
#13I got my management to agree that it’s worth the $5 a month for everyone’s productivity. Hopefully Podman fixes their volume mounting problems and we can just start using that eventually.
Ah man, that must be a magical place. I spent months (on-and-off) trying to convince my company to do this and failed. I hope they figure it out, because while I worked around it for my needs, I can't imagine I'm the only person who used Docker Desktop at the company, and it genuinely worries me that while IT considers it unapproved software that it won't stop its usage.
Which management books did you cite to back you up?
Re: Ask HN: What are you going to use instead of Docker Desktop for macOS?
#14My needs are super minimal, one or two containers at a time at most. So I use Docker Engine + docker-machine (sets up a Linux VM in VirtualBox by default) + lazydocker (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker). I did add a function to my fish config to start Docker Engine if needed, load the environment info I need from docker-machine, and then run lazydocker.
Seems to work fine so far for me.
Re: Ask HN: What are you going to use instead of Docker Desktop for macOS?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah man, that must be a magical place. I spent months (on-and-off) trying to convince my company to do this and failed. I hope they figure it out, because while I worked around it for my needs, I can't imagine I'm the only person who used Docker Desktop at the company, and it genuinely worries me that while IT considers it unapproved software that it won't stop its usage.
Which management books did you cite to back you up?
The wrong ones apparently :) I did attempt to explain that the cost for each dev to figure out an alternative setup would exceed the cost of the license itself, and of course pointed out the possible risk of not taking action if somebody continues to use Docker Desktop unintentionally violating the new license terms.
Re: Ask HN: What are you going to use instead of Docker Desktop for macOS?
#16Podman with https://github.com/jan-g/podman_wrapper to set up sshfs to work around its lack of bind mounting.
Re: Ask HN: What are you going to use instead of Docker Desktop for macOS?
#17I have been wondering if VMWare's `vctl` could work for this on the mac
Re: Ask HN: What are you going to use instead of Docker Desktop for macOS?
#18I’ve just been using minikube. I can just build containers with it or mock up a k8s deployment. Instructions to configure local docker or podman to use it are simple.
With the hyperkit backend it’s pretty similar, just with extra bells and whistles and nothing in the taskbar.
I keep things pretty simple, so there may be cases it doesn’t cover.
If so, then I’d just use a VM. I still use Vagrant a lot for testing non-container stuff. It could be handy there to set up an environment that actually matches your prod setup.