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Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Docker desktop is a memory hog. What's the memory usage of Davit?

With nothing running, the platform's background services idle at roughly 25 MB. Docker desktop starts a single VM to host all containers and will reserve memory to do so. Davit itself is about 25mb and then each container will use the memory up to what you allocate for it.

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Unrelated. I noticed that the settings window (Cmd-,) text inputs all type from the right instead of the left like older macOS inputs (or web inputs[0])

Is that a thing macOS is moving to? I'm sure I've seen Apple use these too.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ?

Docker Desktop/Obstack start a single VM that runs all your containers. This means that you'll have to scale it accordingly. Davit uses Apple Containers that runs a very thin VM for each container you spin up. Depending on your use case it's more, less or equivalently effcient.

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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post #3

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…

Great suggestion. Coming up.

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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post #26

I've been a fan of Orbstack for make 2 years or so. Worth the cost for me because it's so well integrated and fast and docker command compatible. I'll give this a try though.

I’m guessing the OrbStack team will probably support MacOS native containers soon enough, with all their management goodness on top.

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Other recent vibe-coded projects providing similar interfaces: - https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app - https://github.com/tofa84/berth

Hmm… how does one even pick between multiple vibe coded options?

I like to vet my options before committing to new software but who knows if the authors are gonna support these in a month? I don’t want to waste Fable tokens to fix bugs myself when they crop up.

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