Does this support GPU?
It would be great to be able to run deep learning workloads via docker on macos.
Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
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Re: Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#22I really like .devContainers in VSCode, but I really don't like Docker. I use Podman on Fedora which switched to cgroups v2 a long time ago, and while it works ok almost some of the time, it's inconsistent when sharing my devcontainer setup with my macOS colleagues. What are people's experiences running devcontainers with Colima? The repo suggests that it _should_ work, but I'd be curious to hear subjective experienc…
I fe l this pain too. In the end I ditched macos for popos just to get native performance with devcontainers.
Re: Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#23Colima has been an awesome replacement of Docker Desktop for me on Mac. It seems to run light, doesn't prompt for updates on system launch, in fact doesn't even auto launch on startup, have to manually do colima start. And docker just works flawlessly. Kudos to the team who built this. Best part is this nifty little command that allows for auto complete script generation for the required shell, try it: colima complet…
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Re: Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#24Personally I'll be sticking to Rancher Desktop[1] It's backed by SuSE so it's going to be supported and not dependent on a single maintainer. From my perspective, the last thing I want to do is waste my time debugging my container runtime, I just want to get on with the job. It's based also around K3s, which is well suited to desktop environments. The list goes on... [1] https://rancherdesktop.io
Rancher desktop has a bloated electron GUI and and just keep in mind that Rancher as a company is going the way of dust - already about as relevant as SuSE.
Re: Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#25Mind the clock drift. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/issues/274
Re: Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#26Personally I'll be sticking to Rancher Desktop[1] It's backed by SuSE so it's going to be supported and not dependent on a single maintainer. From my perspective, the last thing I want to do is waste my time debugging my container runtime, I just want to get on with the job. It's based also around K3s, which is well suited to desktop environments. The list goes on... [1] https://rancherdesktop.io
Rancher desktop has a bloated electron GUI and and just keep in mind that Rancher as a company is going the way of dust - already about as relevant as SuSE.
You hate to see it but this is brutal, correct, and brutally correct.
Re: Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Colima/Lima already support more features than OrbStack, and are FOSS, and OrbStack will soon become a paid product (like Docker Desktop), so I would recommend either Colima or Docker Desktop instead.
(I work on OrbStack.) Fair point. Any missing features that you've noticed in particular? Edit: OrbStack will also most likely remain free for personal non-commercial use.
Please have a personal license that allows commercial use by the licensee, often it's hard to convince your company to get something just for you and I'm happy to pay for a tool I already use so I don't have to context switch. (I did so for Obsidian and Berkeley Mono).
Re: Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#28Re: Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#29We migrated all our devs to colima and it's been pretty good. Don't want to deal with Docker (the company) and don't use any of the "features" of Docker Desktop.
The only actual issue we've seen is the way folder syncing works includes a slight delay, which has caused some unit tests that depend on running commands in a container with the current working directory mapped that create files to fail intermittently. We believe this is because of sshfs caching. We've updated the tests to wait for the files to appear rather than assume.
Re: Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
#30Personally I'll be sticking to Rancher Desktop[1] It's backed by SuSE so it's going to be supported and not dependent on a single maintainer. From my perspective, the last thing I want to do is waste my time debugging my container runtime, I just want to get on with the job. It's based also around K3s, which is well suited to desktop environments. The list goes on... [1] https://rancherdesktop.io
Rancher desktop has a bloated electron GUI and and just keep in mind that Rancher as a company is going the way of dust - already about as relevant as SuSE.
What do you see as a replacement for Rancher? I haven’t seen any offerings that out of the box work behind a firewall. Tanzu Mission Control failed this, D2iQ Kommander fails at it as of 2.0. EKS Anywhere doesn’t have that either afaik.