Apple container

“built in container runtime for the OS is developer forward thinking”

“Apple's container framework is a welcome improvement over colima”

“To each his own: my goto solution is an actual server on my LAN”

“On Mac you now have Apple Container which is a lightweight Linux VM.”

“I so much prefer using Apple containers to using Docker on my two home Macs for personal projects.”

“Apple Containers is neat except it is just another set of commands we gotta memorize.”

“Apple containers specifically, for better hypervisor-level isolation”

“Apple's implementation looks cleaner though, especially the automatic user mapping”

“Isolation level on Container Machines is better from that point of view.”

“He's a long-time maintainer of Docker, Containerd, and more!”

“I still can’t use Containers because of a broken DNS implementation.”

“Use this because docker has very problematic licensing on MacOS.”

“being able to bring your own container machine image goes a long way to helping it's adoption”

“Nice to see Apple creating tooling around their VZ framework.”

“This is a great value add for developers on Mac who need to deal with Linux containers.”

“it does require loading a custom kernel (which they make pretty easy, thankfully)”

“Apple containers are great for providing a sandbox to your AI coding agents”

“it works with ECR pretty easily, only downside is compose but there's wrappers to support that”

“It would be wonderful if this ran on older versions of macOS, but according to the README they only support 26.”

“container machines add support for persistence and filesystem mounting”

“expect to page through a few pages of ToS during the build”

“I mount a directory in the container, if needed, and it's smooth sailing.”

“none of these issues have prevented me from accomplishing what I need”

“container is really good, ive been using it to sandbox some CLI tools and it starts up in less than a second”

“I moved a project of mine from colima+docker to it relatively easily”

“Apple's open-source container support is built on Virtualization, making it a much more secure option than Docker”

“you can spin up a linux container vm in ~100ms. (No docker root)”

“I really like Apple's Container. The only issue I have currently is that there are some annoying networking bugs”

“It's missing several Docker features still, but if I were to pick a minimal, native runtime, it would probably be that”

“Been using it to sandbox claude/gemini-cli generated code”

“Good if you need that kind of isolation, otherwise a little wasteful.”

“Apple Container is a microvm, providing mich better isolation than containers (while retaining the familiar interface)”

“Apple containers have been great especially that each of them maps 1:1 to a dedicated lightweight VM”

“The isolation it provides is superior than docker.”

“apple/container is a good replacement for Docker for Mac on macOS”

“Tart VM or manually doing apple's container CLI is maybe most of the way there, but images are huge.”

“it's more isolated than docker containers as in it doesn't share the VM across all containers”

“Hopefully, they can work towards being (1) more docker api compatible and (2) making it more composable.”

“apple container just runs a lot more efficiently on apple silicon macs than docker”

“enable some local container networking using apple's new container tool”