Replace Docker Desktop with Podman in OSX

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  • toolbox

    Discontinued The Docker Toolbox

  • you will need to run the next bash script

  • QEMU

    Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

  • On Mac, each Podman machine is backed by a QEMU based virtual machine. Once installed, the podman command can be run directly from the Unix shell in Terminal, where it remotely communicates with the podman service running in the Machine VM.

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  • maven-mvnd

    Apache Maven Daemon

  • Your tools, such as Maven or Testcontainers, communicate with Podman without reconfiguration.

  • HomeBrew

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  • For Mac, Podman is provided through Homebrew. Once you have set up brew, you can use the brew install command to install Podman:

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