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trueismyworktoday at 3:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

Sorrt for may be a complete ignorant question but whats the use case of docker desktop as opposed docker cli


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dns_snektoday at 3:37 PM

Docker Engine (the "CLI") only works on Linux. "Desktop" is supposed to offer a unified experience across platforms, it offers a GUI, ships Docker Engine inside a virtual machine so that it works on Windows and MacOS, and tries to make the VM as transparent/invisible as possible (with varying success) with filesystem mounts and network configuration.

kkapelontoday at 3:46 PM

It also includes a local k8s cluster. So you get 2 in 1 package.

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