We 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 b…
But you still run the Docker daemon, no? Is the colima cli really so much better you’d not just stick to docker-compose, docker buildx, etc? I’d switch from Docker, but if I’m running it under the hood anyways, I don’t see much point in replacing the fronted — but please convince me otherwise!
You have it exactly backwards. We use colima to run the (lima) VM that runs Docker daemon, but we use all the standard docker tools on the host. Colima configures docker with a context called "colima" that knows how to talk to the guest correctly.