Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
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Re: Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
#2Unfortunately this like other alternatives still misses some key features of Docker Desktop for Mac like utilizing VPNKit (https://github.com/moby/vpnkit) to make networking not constantly break when on a VPN without split tunneling, etc.
I've started using minikube myself as I stopped constantly needing to use Cisco AnyConnect for work as we switched to using a Zscaler product instead - but this is a huge bugbear for many users I'd like to see somebody address.
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#3"Motivation: Docker for Mac was proving to be a workflow pain rather than a workflow gain."
I feel that pain. I switched from a Linux box to a Mac Mini for ALMOST all the work I do. I just couldn't take the pain, now when I need to do my Docker work, I just flip back to my Linux box. I have a Logi keyboard and Mouse with that 3 device button option, and a monitor with a few inputs, so I just turn on the ol' Linux box, press a few buttons, and I'm there. I do the same thing for Windows, for the rare occasion I need Windows (mostly for testing stuff).
I could probably find ways around the pain points, but I just can't be bothered when it's so easy to just use the other machine sitting right here. No point in wasting any more time on it.
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#4Should this be faster than Docker Desktop?
Re: Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
#5I've been exploring 2 alternatives (podman and colima) to replace my normal docker workflow, which is just building and running containers locally, sometimes with docker-compose. I started with podman but had issues with 2 main pieces of my workflow: docker-compose (or podman-compose) and shared volumes (with `run -v`). Switched over to colima and those worked out of the box for me ("brew install docker; brew install docker-compose; brew install colima; colima start; docker run ...")
Re: Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
#6I've been exploring 2 alternatives (podman and colima) to replace my normal docker workflow, which is just building and running containers locally, sometimes with docker-compose. I started with podman but had issues with 2 main pieces of my workflow: docker-compose (or podman-compose) and shared volumes (with `run -v`). Switched over to colima and those worked out of the box for me ("brew install docker; brew install…
+1 to Colima. Works seamlessly. Made the switch not too long ago.
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#7"Motivation: Docker for Mac was proving to be a workflow pain rather than a workflow gain." I feel that pain. I switched from a Linux box to a Mac Mini for ALMOST all the work I do. I just couldn't take the pain, now when I need to do my Docker work, I just flip back to my Linux box. I have a Logi keyboard and Mouse with that 3 device button option, and a monitor with a few inputs, so I just turn on the ol' Linux box…
I was thinking to do the same but with Linux in a VM on top of MacOS, figuring that docker runs like crap on it anyway so I might as well.
Edit: upon inspection I see that is what the link is about, so it probably has some merit.
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#8This won't work on the new M1 macs since it uses VirtualBox
Re: Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
#9I've been exploring 2 alternatives (podman and colima) to replace my normal docker workflow, which is just building and running containers locally, sometimes with docker-compose. I started with podman but had issues with 2 main pieces of my workflow: docker-compose (or podman-compose) and shared volumes (with `run -v`). Switched over to colima and those worked out of the box for me ("brew install docker; brew install…
podman: https://podman.io/
colima: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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#10One 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 port-forwarding primitives, but it isn't as batteries-included as Docker desktop. On the other hand, you have full ssh access to the VM to do whatever you want (+startup scripts, etc.)
Awhile back, I wrote up a comparison of all the Docker Desktop Alternatives. [1]