Docker-OSX VS lima

Compare Docker-OSX vs lima and see what are their differences.

Docker-OSX

Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers. (by sickcodes)

lima

Linux virtual machines, typically on macOS, for running containerd (by lima-vm)
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Docker-OSX lima
109 83
29,441 10,948
- 3.8%
5.0 9.3
about 2 months ago 7 days ago
Shell Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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Docker-OSX

Posts with mentions or reviews of Docker-OSX. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.

lima

Posts with mentions or reviews of lima. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Docker-OSX and lima you can also consider the following projects:

colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

minikube - Run Kubernetes locally

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

rancher - Complete container management platform

podman-desktop - launch and setup vms for podman

kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

k3d - Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker