alt Hacker NewsWill this be able to replace docker desktop an equivalents, removing the expensive Linux VM that runs alongside them?
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My first thought as well, docker desktop overhead is pretty bad, would be awesome to see this land natively in DD. By my estimate this could happen, seeing as Docker has historically tried to improve performance but quickly had to accept platform limitations… would only be natural to settle DD over to containers
It mostly removes the big shared background VM and replaces it with smaller, more isolated Apple-native VMs.
I did an experiment migrating my Podman workload to Apple's container @ https://gist.github.com/jmonster/39e14585e107dbf990a90966c0f...
TL;DR reduces ram/storage usage; minimizes it's existence
Others here mention it and I’m a new convert to Colima.
The pain of working around Docker Desktop is bad.
That sure would be nice. I seem to rm -rf ~/.colima every few days.
Linux VMs on doesn't have to be expensive!