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Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup (by abiosoft)

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  • How I ended up using Colima for Docker on Apple Silicon
    3 projects | dev.to | 3 May 2024
    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).
  • Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2024
    If you don't need a GUI, the following combo works pretty well:

    - https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

    - https://github.com/peterldowns/localias

  • Damn Small Linux 2024
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 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.

  • Howto: WASM runtimes in Docker / Colima
    5 projects | dev.to | 12 Jan 2024
    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.
  • RamRamRamEveryoneSleepingOnDocker
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 7 Dec 2023
    Colima runs much faster on Macos: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
  • Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023
    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

  • K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    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.
  • abiosoft/colima
    1 project | /r/programming | 4 Sep 2023
  • UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2023
    I'd say Lima and Colima should be enough for most use cases:

    https://lima-vm.io/

    https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

  • Lazydocker
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2023
    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

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