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OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by kdrag0n »

nkmnz wrote: post #69
kdrag0n wrote: post #4

Nice to see this here :) I work on OrbStack. Happy to answer questions!

One reason I'm still using docker desktop in my (small) company is that our production systems are using docker compose and the networking with domains does not translate 1:1 between orbstack locally and docker compose + nginx in production. Is there an easy way to solve this?

OrbStack domains can be nice but you don't have to use them. It's fully compatible with Compose, so you can just run the same commands with no changes to your setup. Did that not work for you?

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by danmur »

nkmnz wrote: post #67
danmur wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spent all the budget on Apple hardware

MacBook Air M2 16gb ram leasing: 30€ per month orbstack pro business license: 10€ per month I don't think the hardware cost is prohibitive here. It's the death of a thousand paper cuts of a startup. I agree that orbstack would be a good investment, though.

My (somewhat sarcastic) comment was just that Apple hardware is more expensive than Linux/Windows hardware. If you use Linux then I would say the docker experience is quite good. I wonder if Linux hardware was an option; seems odd to require running stuff under docker but also force people to use macbooks...

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by kdrag0n »

rfoo wrote: post #44
kdrag0n wrote: post #4

Nice to see this here :) I work on OrbStack. Happy to answer questions!

Hi, is it possible to add a virtual machine mode to OrbStack? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423667 for why. I'm okay with most (or all) nice integrations unavailable. Basically I want a true UTM replacement, the one I can run my own kernel.

Sorry, no plans for that. That vertical integration is a key part of OrbStack — it's not just for nice extras/integrations.

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by styfle »

kdrag0n wrote: post #4

Nice to see this here :) I work on OrbStack. Happy to answer questions!

I have a machine with Colima and don’t want to bork it if I try Orbstack.

I think I used “brew install docker docker-compose colima” and then “colima start”.

Is “brew install orbstack” a drop in replacement for colima or does it install other things that might conflict?

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by kdrag0n »

moondev wrote: post #41
xyst wrote: post #21

I’m curious how orbstack is able to achieve the performance they claim.

It appears to be lxd, I assume a single vm with multiple lxd inside. https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/461#issuecomment...

The issue submitter just happened to be running LXD in their OrbStack machine.

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by kdrag0n »

styfle wrote: post #75
kdrag0n wrote: post #4

Nice to see this here :) I work on OrbStack. Happy to answer questions!

I have a machine with Colima and don’t want to bork it if I try Orbstack. I think I used “brew install docker docker-compose colima” and then “colima start”. Is “brew install orbstack” a drop in replacement for colima or does it install other things that might conflict?

Drop-in: "orb" to start, stop it + uninstall + restart Colima to revert.

It can optionally install OrbStack's bundled `docker` and `docker compose` binaries, but you can also keep using the Homebrew ones.

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by AYBABTME »

pjmlp wrote: post #28
magnio wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny how WSL2 makes Windows much more usable than macOS for development. None of the free options (colima, multipass, etc) I've tried on macOS are as smooth, though OrbStack might be it. I have also moved towards using devcontainers for my projects whenever I can, so that I can spin up my environment on whatever machine I have, or connect to a remote one if the machine doesn't allow it.

Only because it is a Linux VM, and people insist on using Linux specific stuff instead of UNIX, to the point younger generations have no clue about the difference. Even the BSDs and Solaris/Illumos have add to add Linux translation layers. Sad state where POSIX hardly matters for portable UNIX code.

Can you make containers in Darwin?
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