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Is there any Docker alternative on Mac that can utilize the MPS device in a container? ML stuff is many times slower in a container on my Mac than running outside
There are native macos containers, but they arent very popular
Is there any Docker alternative on Mac that can utilize the MPS device in a container? ML stuff is many times slower in a container on my Mac than running outside
The issue you're running into is that to run docker on mac, you have to run it in a vm. Docker is fundamentally a linux technology, so first emulate x86_64 linux, then run the container. That's going to be slow. There are native macos containers, but they arent very popular
The fact how simple it is to re-implement a large part of Docker because all it fundamentally is a bit of glue code to the kernel is the biggest problem Docker-the-company faced and still faces. Where Docker adds real value is not (just) Docker Hub but Docker for Windows and Mac. The integrations offer a vastly superior experience than messing around with VirtualBox and Vagrant by hand (been there, done that) to achi…
Nah, they should have prioritized building some sort of PaaS solution like CloudRun, Render or Fly so they can sell that to enterprises for $$$. Instead they did half-baked docker swarm which never really worked reliably and then lost ground to k8s rapidly
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The issue you're running into is that to run docker on mac, you have to run it in a vm. Docker is fundamentally a linux technology, so first emulate x86_64 linux, then run the container. That's going to be slow. There are native macos containers, but they arent very popular
Docker can run ARM64 linux kernel, no need to emulate x86
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Docker Desktop on Mac is a handicapped, underprivileged mess. Docker cli for Mac with Colima is still underprivileged, but at least you can skip the bs license and Docker's gui. On Windows you can at least use Docker on WSL which works great. Why use Docker Desktop is beyond me.
> Why use Docker Desktop is beyond me. I lived through a failed attempt to migrate from Docker Desktop for Mac to an open source alternative (minikube+portainer, IIRC). A lot of test scripts developers relied on – to run parts of the integration test suite on their laptops for debugging – broke, because Docker Desktop for Mac went to a lot of effort to make macOS look like you were running Docker on Linux, whereas th…
The fact how simple it is to re-implement a large part of Docker because all it fundamentally is a bit of glue code to the kernel is the biggest problem Docker-the-company faced and still faces. Where Docker adds real value is not (just) Docker Hub but Docker for Windows and Mac. The integrations offer a vastly superior experience than messing around with VirtualBox and Vagrant by hand (been there, done that) to achi…
Docker Desktop on Mac is a handicapped, underprivileged mess. Docker cli for Mac with Colima is still underprivileged, but at least you can skip the bs license and Docker's gui. On Windows you can at least use Docker on WSL which works great. Why use Docker Desktop is beyond me.
It's a fairly full-featured Terminal UI that has the benefit of running over ssh: