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Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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I really want to use this but am stuck (right now) having to use Caddy's docker tags integration for name resolution.

Can you not use Avahi in the guest and get zeroconf? Oh! Do you mean the issue is adding extra name resolution to a VM? Have you tried this avahi alias trick? https://gist.github.com/tomslominski/9d507acd4036952d65b2364... Works like a charm, bit odd that you have a persistent avahi client process broadcasting per alias, but it's lightweight.

Interesting! I will look into this.

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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How does it compare to something like OrbStack?

OrbStack has its own virtualization layer designed to simulate Docker. Containerization has different primitives even though it supports the same OCI images

Okay, so it allows to run the same image, but is not CLI-compatible with docker that's what you mean? But is it more / less / equivalently efficient ?

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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This looks like a really solid app. I like that it's 17 MB and uses the ContainerAPIClient library directly. 28 commits in 3 days, 5,015 lines of Swift, every commit "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5". Also neat that it's signed/notarized. I installed it and it downloaded the necessary container platform stuff on first launch. Suggestion: add a getting started tutorial to the site which suggests an image to try out and…

The AI-Maxing copy on the website kind of gave it away. Doesn't mean is not a great app though!

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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I don't know a lot about containers. Would containers created for/with this also work in Docker? Good name for this app, BTW.

It claims to be backed by (and require) apple/containers(1) which "consumes and produces OCI-compatible container images" so if all that is true .... yes!

1) https://github.com/apple/container

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