“The goal of Lima is to promote containerd including nerdctl (contaiNERD ctl) to Mac users, but Lima can be used for non-container applications as well.”. This is the main motivation of the project:
DOCKER ON MAC INSTALL
To install containerd on Mac, you have to compile sources and this can be tedious and long.
Lima is a project that allows you to launch Linux virtual machines on MacOS with automatic file sharing, port forwarding, and containerd. Rather heavy as a working environment! But recently I found a turnkey and easy to set up solution to have Docker and Kubernetes on Mac without going through Docker Desktop. To have a Linux host I was running a vagrant virtual machine with a docker inside. But the problem here is that there is no support for systemd because it doesn’t exist in MacOSX. When I am developing Ansible roles, I do tests with the Molecule framework and Docker. In my case of daily use, I’ve long been looking for an alternative to Docker Desktop. This is a good opportunity to think about an alternative to Docker Desktop. “Docker Desktop remains free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open source projects.” - from the Docker blog There are some changes on the Docker Desktop side:
DOCKER ON MAC UPDATE
Docker announced on August 31, 2021, that they will update their subscription.
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