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Reminds me: Still waiting for native ARM support on GitHub Actions https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/5631
How does this work? Fundamentally, containers are about namespace/isolation of a bunch of OS interfaces, so file system functions, network functions, memory management, process functions, etc, can all pretend like they're the only game in town, but crucially without having to virtualize out the kernel. Does XNU have such namespacing functionality across all its interfaces? Furthermore, the existing container ecosyste…
This introduces a long-standing problem that is really the main issue I have with Docker/Podman/containers on anything other than Linux - you have a dedicated VM that needs memory to be set aside for it exclusively. This is fine if you have a 32/64GB machine, but less so on an 8GB non-upgradeable laptop. I get it - memory is relatively cheap these days - and manufacturers that are building memory-limited devices are…
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I'm probably getting confused between containers and VMs but, sorry, I don't understand what the difference is in the case of MacOS?
It is the same for any OS. Virtual machine boots a separate instance of the whole OS. This is slow, this is often too much isolated (you can't easily/effectively share files between host and guest), you need to set artificial limits on VM disk/memory/cpu. On the other side, containers work in the context of host OS, what means less overhead and easier interaction with host.
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This one is ridiculous. This should already exist. Until GitHub builds it, you can use GitHub Actions to kick your builds off but run them remotely on Earthly Cloud ( https://earthly.dev/ ). Even the free tier includes arm64 remote runners. Note: I work at Earthly, but I'm not wrong about this being a good, free, arm64-native workflow for GitHub Actions.
Isn’t that service shutting down in <1 week?