I saw this, I think posted here the other day, looked interesting. https://github.com/ajayd-san/gomanagedocker
A TUI alternative.
Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion
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That's basically what a docker image does in a more formalized, isolated, and repeatable fashion.
True. But Docker comes with a lot of complexity. And it comes with a meaningful performance hit on macOS and Windows. And it doesn't work at all on Android/iOS. It's so sad that running software on Linux is so wildly complicated and unreliable than things like Docker had to be invented. :(
For most uses wsl2 on windows is pretty close to a bare metal instalation
https://www.phoronix.com/review/windows11-wsl2-zen4
wsl2 runs under the windows hypervisor as a vm, but so does windows since windows 11. So there should not be much performance issues from running stuff in windows vs wsl2. The major bottleneck is if you need to move files from and to the windows vm to the Linux vm
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#123I've been using Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop, https://rancherdesktop.io/ on macOS and Windows, it's pretty solid. It has some kinks to work out but I got it working with IDEs too (e.g. the Intellij IDEA Docker Compose integration to work with it). What I also like is that existing scripts and etc that use the docker-compose cli work with Rancher Desktop too, as it uses nerdctl https://github.co…
We just completed the switch to Rancher where I work. 1200ish engineers, mostly on Macs. So far it's worked out pretty well..fewer hiccups than I expected.
Does it use the same "containers are really just running in a Linux VM" approach as Docker Desktop on macOS?
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#124Kubernetes is planned - my devops wants me to add it badly! Author note - Most of you guys here are power users, for whom UI is a visual poem that you need or not. This is not a commercial project, it is not following any business goals. But this does not mean concessions to quality, it does try to offer minimal resource usage everywhere, easy experience, good UI/UX. It explains all it does behind the scenes if you e…
I don't live my life entirely on the command line either, but GUIs for Docker are just an interesting niche to me, for which I just don't understand what the ven diagram is between people that want Docker containers running locally, know that that's what they want, and know how it all works, but then don't want to do the small handful of commands at the prompt needed to get it running...
I would have assumed the same, but Docker makes ~100m ARR on docker desktop so it’s def not niche.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
We just completed the switch to Rancher where I work. 1200ish engineers, mostly on Macs. So far it's worked out pretty well..fewer hiccups than I expected.
Does it use the same "containers are really just running in a Linux VM" approach as Docker Desktop on macOS?
unless you run osx on a Linux kernel, it will always be so.
not a personal attack on you, but it blows my mind how clueless the current generation of developers become after the docker phase.
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#126I would also encourage people to look at Podman desktop which has pretty good support from Red Hat. https://podman-desktop.io/
support from red hat is not a good thing :nervouslaughteremoji
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#127Does it support VSCode Devcontainers? That's the only reason I haven't been able to switch to an alternative.
Is this supported by DD?
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I would love to use it but I loathe subscriptions, especially for something I’d need work to pay for. I would happily pay a one-time $50-100 and get a perpetual license so I don’t have to deal with the headache…
IMO if Docker is important to you then Orbstack is worth it. The debug shell feature alone makes it better than any alternative, and hopefully that subscription money is put towards more unique features. https://docs.orbstack.dev/features/debug
if i understood that page, debug shell is... "exec" with a nicer .bashprofile and injected text editor binary???
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#129Kubernetes is planned - my devops wants me to add it badly! Author note - Most of you guys here are power users, for whom UI is a visual poem that you need or not. This is not a commercial project, it is not following any business goals. But this does not mean concessions to quality, it does try to offer minimal resource usage everywhere, easy experience, good UI/UX. It explains all it does behind the scenes if you e…
I don't live my life entirely on the command line either, but GUIs for Docker are just an interesting niche to me, for which I just don't understand what the ven diagram is between people that want Docker containers running locally, know that that's what they want, and know how it all works, but then don't want to do the small handful of commands at the prompt needed to get it running...
relatedly, I prefer using the github app instead of using the CLI.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
True. But Docker comes with a lot of complexity. And it comes with a meaningful performance hit on macOS and Windows. And it doesn't work at all on Android/iOS. It's so sad that running software on Linux is so wildly complicated and unreliable than things like Docker had to be invented. :(
For most uses wsl2 on windows is pretty close to a bare metal instalation https://www.phoronix.com/review/windows11-wsl2-zen4 wsl2 runs under the windows hypervisor as a vm, but so does windows since windows 11. So there should not be much performance issues from running stuff in windows vs wsl2. The major bottleneck is if you need to move files from and to the windows vm to the Linux vm
My interest in running Linux binaries on Windows is zero. I run native windows binaries. Why would I want to run via WSL2 when I can do it natively?
Why people constantly insist on adding unnecessary layers of abstraction is beyond me.