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Emacs 29.1 Released
I use containers on Mac and Windows for development (and we deploy on linux). Docker for Mac is _unusably_ slow in my experience. The VM that it runs is a giant resource hog and a battery hog, and doesn't support ipv6 [0] Docker Desktop itself is (another) resource hog, wildly buggy, and painfully slow. It's the epitome of "shitty electron app".
On windows, docker desktop has all of the same issues as it does on mac. Docker's concept of volumes and file permissions on windows are nonsense. Windows updates and Docker Desktop regularly decide to disagree, [1] It's networking support interferes with other applications (like OpenVPN and the Xbox Game Center) [2].
[0] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1432
[1] https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/599
[2] https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/1976
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Error deploying subgraph on local
version: '3' services: graph-node: image: graphprotocol/graph-node ports: - '8000:8000' - '8001:8001' - '8020:8020' - '8030:8030' - '8040:8040' depends_on: - ipfs - postgres extra_hosts: - host.docker.internal:host-gateway environment: postgres_host: postgres postgres_user: graph-node postgres_pass: let-me-in postgres_db: graph-node ipfs: 'ipfs:5001' matic: 'matic:http://localhost:8545/' GRAPH_LOG: info ipfs: image: ipfs/go-ipfs:v0.10.0 ports: - '5001:5001' volumes: - ./data/ipfs:/data/ipfs postgres: image: postgres ports: - '5432:5432' command: [ "postgres", "-cshared_preload_libraries=pg_stat_statements" ] environment: POSTGRES_USER: graph-node POSTGRES_PASSWORD: let-me-in POSTGRES_DB: graph-node # FIXME: remove this env. var. which we shouldn't need. Introduced by # , maybe as a # workaround for https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6270? PGDATA: "/var/lib/postgresql/data" POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: "-E UTF8 --locale=C" volumes: - ./data/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
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ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED on localhost
This bug has been around years and still not fixed as far as I know - see https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3926
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Stuck at "Starting the Docker Engine..." on macOS
You're not wrong, and not the first to raise this https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6061
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Docker Desktop is dead on Mac M1
https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6867 This github issue might help. What worked for me was deleting the ~/.docker/buildx folder
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PiHole + docker DHCP
There has been an outstanding bug [Docker Github] for years with the Docker team who do not seem to be able (or want to) address this - they have closed more than one issue but its still there.. The latest bug report is this one [Docker Github] but I honestly would not bother following it - no idea why they are not fixing this.
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Mysterious Server Crashes
Have you checked if any of your other Docker containers become unresponsive at the same time? If so, it could be Docker. I had this issue on Docker for months until they finally came out with an update that works for me (Docker Desktop 4.19.0 for Mac).
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Very slow (local) direct playing with no apparent setup changes all of a sudden
It might have something to do with Docker? I was having issues a few months ago with all my containers becoming unreachable or very slow many times per day. I finally upgraded to Docker Desktop 4.19.0 (I’m on a Mac) and everything resolved. There were a few GitHub issues about it, too. You could try running a speedtest within different Docker containers and seeing if there’s a discrepancy. You could also check your RAM and CPU usage for different containers using something like Glances; it could lead to a clue.
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colima
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How I ended up using Colima for Docker on Apple Silicon
While looking into the issue with Podman, I came across colima. Apart from being able to run AMD64 images out of the box, there were additional benefits to it, one of which was, unlike podman, colima could use Rosetta 2 for x64 emulation (which is significantly more performant).
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Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
If you don't need a GUI, the following combo works pretty well:
- https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
- https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
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Damn Small Linux 2024
You might look into CoLima as a way to get started.
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima?tab=readme-ov-file
Its user interface is Docker-like, using containers.
For full desktop, I've only used the commercial app "Parallels", which can set up an Ubuntu desktop for you. Also Fedora and Alpine and Debian I believe.
But
> I don't really have any resources to share. I just know how to boot a vmlinuz with an initramfs using QEMU, and decided to download the Linux kernel source code and try compiling it.
I highly recommend working through Linux from Scratch and possibly the Gentoo Handbook. It's a journey.
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Howto: WASM runtimes in Docker / Colima
I could not find any guide how to add WASM container capability to Docker running on Colima. This guide provides a few Colima templates for exactly this, which adds WasmEdge, Wasmtime and Wasmer runtime types.
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RamRamRamEveryoneSleepingOnDocker
Colima runs much faster on Macos: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
After docker desktop became unusable, I jumped to colima and never looked back. I still use the docker runtime in it (the non-proprietary part) but it also supports containerd. On Mac it's just a "brew install colima" and then "colima start"
I also install the compose and ecr credentials plug-ins (since I use ecr for my container registry.) It has the full functionality of docker desktop minus the UI, which I never used anyways.
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
On my M1 Pro system, I have nothing but positive things to say about the experience of using Colima (https://github.com/abiosoft/colima). Quick to set up and fast to use.
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UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
I'd say Lima and Colima should be enough for most use cases:
https://lima-vm.io/
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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Lazydocker
The bash/zsh equivalent wouldn't be too hard, but I use fish.
[0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima, https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fabiosof...
[1] https://orbstack.dev [3], https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Forbstack.dev
[2] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima#customizing-the-vm and https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/blob/main/docs/FAQ.md#edi...
[3] I’m on OrbStack now, but it isn’t so much better at how I use Docker than Colima is that I think that it’s an instant buy, especially with the planned subscription model. If I used anything other than the Docker integration, I might think it's better, but as of right now, no.
I also have some issues with its insistence on asking for elevated permissions. I will never grant permission[4] to make a symlink to the "standard" Docker socket; context and `$DOCKER_HOST` work well enough. It should not ask if the permission hasn't been given once. I also worry about other "advanced" features that may need an elevated permissions helper[5].
[4] https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/281#issuecomment...
[5] https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/281#issuecomment... and following
What are some alternatives?
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
gvisor - Application Kernel for Containers
Podman Desktop - Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
minikube - Run Kubernetes locally
runtime - Kata Containers version 1.x runtime (for version 2.x see https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers).
rd - Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop
podman-compose - a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman
projector-installer - Install, configure and run JetBrains IDEs with Projector Server on Linux or in WSL
multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances