macOS Container Machines

#1

Post by timsneath » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 12:29 AM UTC

macOS Container Machines
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Re: macOS Container Machines

#2

Post by m463 » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:03 AM UTC

looks like apple wrote a native docker in swift

you can now run linux containers on your mac

... but it could be better.

what about (totally contrived):

  FROM apple/macos:10.11.6

  RUN xcodebuild -project myapp.xcodeproj -scheme MyScheme -configuration Release

Re: macOS Container Machines

#3

Post by jaimehrubiks » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:05 AM UTC

Will this be able to replace docker desktop an equivalents, removing the expensive Linux VM that runs alongside them?

Re: macOS Container Machines

#4

Post by namegulf » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:07 AM UTC

Would be nice if they also support Intel based macs, what prevents?

Re: macOS Container Machines

#5

Post by webXL » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:07 AM UTC

m463 wrote: post #2

looks like apple wrote a native docker in swift you can now run linux containers on your mac ... but it could be better. what about (totally contrived): FROM apple/macos:10.11.6 RUN xcodebuild -project myapp.xcodeproj -scheme MyScheme -configuration Release

Nice, but expect to page through a few pages of ToS during the build

Re: macOS Container Machines

#6

Post by trollbridge » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:08 AM UTC

m463 wrote: post #2

looks like apple wrote a native docker in swift you can now run linux containers on your mac ... but it could be better. what about (totally contrived): FROM apple/macos:10.11.6 RUN xcodebuild -project myapp.xcodeproj -scheme MyScheme -configuration Release

Close - but it would be more like this:

  services:
    macos:
      image: dockurr/macos
      container_name: macos
      environment:
        VERSION: "15"

(And indecently slow.)

Re: macOS Container Machines

#7

Post by trollbridge » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:08 AM UTC

jaimehrubiks wrote: post #3

Will this be able to replace docker desktop an equivalents, removing the expensive Linux VM that runs alongside them?

That sure would be nice. I seem to rm -rf ~/.colima every few days.

Re: macOS Container Machines

#8

Post by thejazzman » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:09 AM UTC

jaimehrubiks wrote: post #3

Will this be able to replace docker desktop an equivalents, removing the expensive Linux VM that runs alongside them?

It mostly removes the big shared background VM and replaces it with smaller, more isolated Apple-native VMs.

I did an experiment migrating my Podman workload to Apple's container @ https://gist.github.com/jmonster/39e14585e107dbf990a90966c0f...

TL;DR reduces ram/storage usage; minimizes it's existence

Re: macOS Container Machines

#9

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:09 AM UTC

m463 wrote: post #2

looks like apple wrote a native docker in swift you can now run linux containers on your mac ... but it could be better. what about (totally contrived): FROM apple/macos:10.11.6 RUN xcodebuild -project myapp.xcodeproj -scheme MyScheme -configuration Release

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Re: macOS Container Machines

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Post by blahgeek » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:13 AM UTC

OrbStack works really well for me. I wonder how it’s compared to this performance wise