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A performance comparison between this solution and Docker for Mac would have been great.
One of the past maintainers of minikube here. Minikube, while targeted towards Kubernetes developers, also provides all the features you'd want here. It also takes away most of the pain from virtual machine management w/ native hypervisors. If you're looking for customizability (boot image, docker version, container runtime), minikube is probably your best bet. It even comes with some rudimentary file-sharing and por…
There's one big difference between Docker Desktop and minikube and the ones referenced in the docker desktop alternatives link. Docker Desktop is a desktop app (GUI and all) while all the listed alternatives are terminal apps. For some this might not matter but for others it does. Rancher Desktop[1] has the desktop app install experience, the GUI, and the the tools (Docker CLI/nerdctl, Kubernetes (k3s), etc), and mor…
Another kind of nice thing about Rancher Desktop is it's cross platform, so even Linux users can use it. That could be nice if you have a mix of Linux and Mac devs and want to use the same tooling here. It also makes sure you don't "mess up" your real Linux system or run into any distro-specific version incompatibilities (since it's all in a disposable VM controlled by Rancher Desktop).
I've tinkered with Rancher Desktop periodically and I think it's a promising tool. For now I keep going back to running Docker directly, only because it's my existing workflow (I'm a Linux user so the Docker Desktop changes don't apply to me).
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> Iirc, a 2018 stackoverflow survey of what devs use had 50% on windows, 40% on Linux and 10% on mac. You needn't rely on your memory, the survey is still available [0]. FWIW, it doesn't seem to contain a question about the OS where development takes place, only about the targets [1]. The top answers were: Linux 48.3% Windows Desktop or Server 35.4% Android 29.0% AWS 24.1% Mac OS 17.9% [0] https://insights.stackoverf…
It does have stats for Developers' Primary Operating System[0]: Windows 49.9% MacOS 26.7% Linux-based 23.2% BSD/Unix 0.2% [0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology-_...
I know people doing docker dev are generally targeting a Linux of some sort, but why the heck doesn't the macOS kernel support native containerization? Come on Apple. Microsoft can do it. edit: this seems like a new development since my last whine/complaint on this topic: https://macoscontainers.org/
> why the heck doesn't the macOS kernel support native containerization? Because Apple has no plans of growing their server OS marketshare. I know there are benefits of using namespaces (containers) in the desktop market, but they don't sell iMacs/MBPs. Exterior design and heavy marketing is their sales strategy.
The heart of this is docker-machine which is deprecated
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I have a simple one for ya... Use docker and Vmware on the same windows machine.
As an alternative one can also consider Rancher Desktop ( https://www.suse.com/c/rancher_blog/rancher-desktop-1-0-0-ha... ) mentioned here few days ago.
+1 for Rancher Desktop. [ https://rancherdesktop.io/ ] you can alias the `docker` command with `nerdctl` as a one:one replacement.
This won't work on the new M1 macs since it uses VirtualBox
Yeah :( Ever since I switched to an M1, I haven't found a way to reliably build and run x86_64 containers on it. Docker desktop with Qemu is not just painfully slow, it's also very buggy and some containers just can't be built without crashing. Is there any alternative?
One of the past maintainers of minikube here. Minikube, while targeted towards Kubernetes developers, also provides all the features you'd want here. It also takes away most of the pain from virtual machine management w/ native hypervisors. If you're looking for customizability (boot image, docker version, container runtime), minikube is probably your best bet. It even comes with some rudimentary file-sharing and por…