how is this different from the usual podman client ?
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Is there anything you can actually _do_ with the Apple GPUs outside of macOS? I know the Asahi Linux person was working on a driver for it, but is it in a useful state?
Yes. In fact it's accelerated and supports OpenGL 4.6 while macOS tops at OpenGL 4.1, and really mostly only supports Metal nowadays. With Asahi you can use OpenGL and Vulkan. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/asahi-linux-projects...
Oh neat! Thanks for the tip!
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#93My team switched our medium sized org over to Rancher Desktop with no major issues after about 10 months. We don't need kubernetes though.
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#94Looks cool, but how is the Kubernetes support? One of the major reasons we use Docker Desktop at work is to host a local Kubernetes cluster with services deployed there. We also support Rancher Desktop since it uses k3s, and k3s is arguably a nicer Kubernetes distribution than the one set up by Docker Desktop. With that said, I have recently tried OrbStack, and it is able to start up near instantly, while Kubernetes…
I demoed Orbstack to my whole department of 100+ engineers, now we've canceled our Docker Desktop account and switched everyone over. Zero complaints.
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I don't know if your comment was intended to imply that Docker was against the Unix philosophy in some way (a debatable point, but not really one I share), or if you mean that the tools don't follow a lot of common Unix convension. When Docker was only a few years old, I did keep running into lots of small things which implied that the people developing docker in fact did NOT have a Unix (or even Linux) background. T…
Why is newline at the end relevant? I remember not having a newline breaks some tools... but why? It can't be because of unix philosophy!?
so that you can cat(1) multiple files at once, and their bookends don't get glued.
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#96While I'm basically fine with Colima on Mac, this seems like a nice alternative to Docker Desktop.
After some initial pains with colima, I tend to agree. Mostly, just needing to specify some VZ args[0] so I could run x86_64 docker images on my M-series. Is there something in these desktop UIs that colima is completely missing? [0] `colima start --vm-type=vz --vz-rosetta`
Could this be the answer I needed to run an SQL Server image that refused to run on my M3 MBP? I was about to, sadly, try Docker Desktop, because of that.
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#97It's not fully baked. Sigh
- Buggy as heck with bad error messages.
- Bad UX with inadequate help.
- Requires extra tweaking and installing more stuff to get going, which defeats its entire purpose.
- Confusing.
- Can't browse or choose tags of images.
It's not a viable alternative yet, but maybe it will improve sometime in the future.
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Why is newline at the end relevant? I remember not having a newline breaks some tools... but why? It can't be because of unix philosophy!?
Some old tools had bugs where they'd read a line (up to the new line) and then process it, so if the last line didn't end with a new line they'd never do the processing. So a manual workaround for bugs became the convention.
Back in ~2002 this was the case with cron. Found out the hard way when all the backup tapes we desperately needed were completely empty.
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Like everything in tech, it's all about tradeoffs and understanding how you want to scale your business. Of the three startups I've been at, 2 of them adopted k8s early on and 1 of which didn't. Of the two that adopted k8s, one I would say k8s was our key differentiator in terms of our GTM motion and how our platform powered the business. $MM customer needs a setup running as close to their current infra's region for…
You don’t need k8s to scale. Can you make other poor choices? Sure.
I have found that people who are adamant haters of k8s, usually truly do not understand k8s or the issues it solves.
It's not for everyone - but having a knee-jerk allergic reaction to anything k8s is silly.
That said - k8s isn't just about scaling, or for "web scale" companies. If you are a person that believes that, it means you are the type of person I am talking about.
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After some initial pains with colima, I tend to agree. Mostly, just needing to specify some VZ args[0] so I could run x86_64 docker images on my M-series. Is there something in these desktop UIs that colima is completely missing? [0] `colima start --vm-type=vz --vz-rosetta`
Could this be the answer I needed to run an SQL Server image that refused to run on my M3 MBP? I was about to, sadly, try Docker Desktop, because of that.
That is exactly why I needed it, too! :D
Be sure to increase RAM over the default 2GB as well, that SQL Server container is hungry and will crash without enough resources dedicated to it.