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A try, I’ve been using it for a few months on both m1 and x64.
It works really well.
Unfortunately this like other alternatives still misses some key features of Docker Desktop for Mac like utilizing VPNKit (https://github.com/moby/vpnkit) to make networking not constantly break when on a VPN without split tunneling, etc.
I've started using minikube myself as I stopped constantly needing to use Cisco AnyConnect for work as we switched to using a Zscaler product instead - but this is a huge bugbear for many users I'd like to see somebody address.
I haven't tested it, but Lima purports to support it:
https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/multi-arch....
I'm using Multipass [https://multipass.run], docker cli, configured with a docker context.
> I have a Logi keyboard and Mouse with that 3 device button option, and a monitor with a few inputs, so I just turn on the ol' Linux box, press a few buttons, and I'm there.
Install Barrier on both Mac and Linux, get an extra monitor, and then you can seamlessly work on both system at once as if it's a single computer with multiple monitor.
https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
Just visit the repo: https://github.com/docker/machine It is archived and hasn't had a commit in almost 2.5 years. See also: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/245
Port forwarding is currently broken if you use dockerd but it will be fixed in the next release or you can run a command to fix it yourself. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/12...
It fails to setup some filesystem links because of Unix permissions. You can fix it in command line. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/11...
If you put your computer into sleep, the VM time will be out of sync. It's going to be fixed in the next release I believe. It's an old classic bug that happened to me with WSL so it was nice to see it again. https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/83...
Nerdctl[1] (for containerd) works fine with docker-compose.yml for my purposes (which are not much). The only issue I encountered was with environment variable substitution not working the same as docker-compose, but I didn't look hard for a solution and edited my compose file
1. https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl mine came bundled with Rancher desktop, and 'nerdctl compose up' is all I've needed
When I work on Linux as my OS, I just install CTOP, and it's all I need to work with Docker.
https://github.com/bcicen/ctop
From the kind readme[1]...
> kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.
minikube was designed for those who want a local kubernetes environment for development. It didn't work well for testing Kubernetes itself which led to kind. They had two different, though slightly overlapping, goals.
[1] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind
Gitlab maintains a fork of docker-machine with critical bug fixes that I've been using recently since Docker deprecated it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/docker-machine
The version of the file format is different to the version of the CLI tool. Compose (the file format) 3.x was introduced with Compose (the tool) version 1.10 in 2017: https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/tag/1.10.0
We do two strange things (right now) that only seem to work with Docker Desktop for Mac <=4.3.2:
We use registry mirrors to access a registry over an SSH tunnel. Doesn't seem to work with Docker via Colima, etc. as it's initiating connections from inside the VM, which doesn't see the SSH tunnel. Broke with Docker Desktop for Mac 4.4.2 as well, and tbh I can't explain why it ever worked, but it did. Nerdctl just learned about registry mirrors like 3 weeks ago[0], but it looks like it's having containerd do the pull so it would be in the same boat.
We set up IP aliases on lo0, and bind containers to individual addresses. This lets multiple containers and their services be directly accessible from the host - and e.g. applications running in Windows on VirtualBox - without having to remap ports. I don't think any of the alternatives support this. I know Colima does not. I don't think anything including Docker Desktop have a way to expose the docker bridge adapter directly to the host.
[0] https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/pull/642