Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
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Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
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Re: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
#2Interestingly, the release version of Parallels for M1 Macs also dropped yesterday.
Re: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
#3Interestingly, the release version of Parallels for M1 Macs also dropped yesterday.
Is there a good way to spin up a Windows virtual machine with Docker on an Apple M1?
I feel like the real solution I should be going with is Parallels or qemu. Just wanted to know if there was something I'm missing.
Re: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
#4I've used the preview release, and my experience with ARM containers has been good - even seems a little more stable than the Intel one.
But I only did a x86 Linux container as a test, and it wasn't a great experience. Seemed visibly slower and crashed once.
So whether or not this suits your needs, I feel, depends on to what degree you need the "contract" that your local environment is the same as prod, because you're probably using x86 Linux/BSD boxes.
Re: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
#5I've used the preview release, and my experience with ARM containers has been good - even seems a little more stable than the Intel one. But I only did a x86 Linux container as a test, and it wasn't a great experience. Seemed visibly slower and crashed once. So whether or not this suits your needs, I feel, depends on to what degree you need the "contract" that your local environment is the same as prod, because you'r…
The other side of that is that this would be an awesome local dev platform for a shop targeting ARM servers.
Re: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
#6I've used the preview release, and my experience with ARM containers has been good - even seems a little more stable than the Intel one. But I only did a x86 Linux container as a test, and it wasn't a great experience. Seemed visibly slower and crashed once. So whether or not this suits your needs, I feel, depends on to what degree you need the "contract" that your local environment is the same as prod, because you'r…
The other side of that is that this would be an awesome local dev platform for a shop targeting ARM servers.
Yep. Given that the fastest Windows ARM device is an M1 Macbook Pro running Windows in Parallels, there's currently no competition for local platforms and ARM.
If Amazon and Nvidia's ARM server chips really pick up steam, then the M1 Macbooks would be the premiere local device.
Re: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
#7That's about the 5th time I am seeing this article posted here.
Re: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
#8I’m so stoked by this news.
Great work from the Docker Team on this!
Re: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
#9The whole point of docker was to have reproducible builds. What runs on the dev machine also runs on the server. But M1 macs change that in a major way. There might be bugs or available features in ARM versions of popular software, so what works on a dev machine might not work on the server and vice-versa.
Re: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
#10I tried using docker for x86 builds for Lambda (which doesn't support ARM), and hit this brick wall, unfortunately:
https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5123
I went and checked the issue when i saw they've made a formal release but it doesn't appear to be resolved. So maybe keep it in mind if anyone has issues trying to use docker now :)
Edit: I see Docker has closed the issue and encouraged people to simply use ARM containers instead. Unfortunately that's not an option for cross-compilation when you're using x86 servers. Something for people to keep in mind when deciding what laptop to buy next, i guess.