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macOS Container Machines

722 pointsby timsneathtoday at 12:29 AM271 commentsview on HN

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phplovesongtoday at 5:21 AM

It was unclear to me, is this a native replacement for docker? I like docker (on mac) but its quite the resource hog.

I usually run like a db, redis, maybe something like rabbitmq/zeromq and have a app that uses these services (makefile/docker-compose).

I would love to switch if this in fact is a lightweight replacement.

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gigatexaltoday at 3:42 AM

I saw the video on this this is distrobox basically for Mac. It’s very cool. Seamless with your local files and the container. I’m very keen to try it.

michaelsbradleytoday at 2:57 AM

Can macOS be run as a container machine on macOS?

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riffictoday at 2:01 AM

darwin containers when?

m463today at 1:03 AM

looks like apple wrote a native docker in swift

you can now run linux containers on your mac

... but it could be better.

what about (totally contrived):

  FROM apple/macos:10.11.6

  RUN xcodebuild -project myapp.xcodeproj -scheme MyScheme -configuration Release
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lzwjavatoday at 5:23 AM

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sourcegrifttoday at 1:22 AM

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xiaodaitoday at 3:27 AM

so basically dockers

jwlaketoday at 2:56 AM

haven't we had hypervisor.framework for like years now?

itsneulook4today at 5:28 AM

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Barbingtoday at 1:40 AM

I found it hard to believe I didn’t have a simple way of staying safe by installing an arbitrary application in a sandbox on macOS. (Restoring using Time Machine doesn’t count! :) )

This is a step in the right direction but requires any given developer’s buy-in first, right?