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Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

79 mentions on Hacker News by 62 people: 15 stories, 64 comments · first 2021-12-30 · latest 2026-05-07

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  1. I've been using https://github.com/abiosoft/colima as a Docker Desktop replacement, which is based on Lima. It's pretty nice.
    comment by toqy · 2022-11-16 · in Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released
  2. > Docker and corresponding tools. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima Neither sound like "applications I really enjoy". More like applications you suffer. > And many others, really. How about examples?
    comment by masklinn · 2022-11-11 · in Thirteen Years of Go
  3. Docker and corresponding tools. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima And many others, really.
    comment by konart · 2022-11-11 · in Thirteen Years of Go
  4. Note: This is quite a big heavy Electron app, if you don't need truly a GUI I'd recommend Colima. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
    comment by smcleod · 2022-11-10 · in Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
  5. …GUI but you can use the Docker extension on VS Code to have an overview of running containers. [0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
    comment by LooerCell · 2022-11-09 · in Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
  6. Colima seems like a pretty nice replacement for Docker Desktop on macOS. [0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/ [1] https://www.arthurkoziel.com/replacing-docker-desktop-for-ma...
    comment by eddyg · 2022-10-19 · in Docker October 2022 Pricing Change FAQ
  7. I've had good success running w/ https://github.com/abiosoft/colima as an alternative to Docker Desktop. I'm on an M1 mac, and it's nice to be able to debug both arm64/x86_64 in the same toolchain (via QEMU virtualization).
    comment by joelmgallant · 2022-09-11 · in Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix (2018)
  8. …to set up: `brew install colima` followed by `colima start`. 1: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima 2: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
    comment by d3nj4l · 2022-04-29 · in 2022 Mac Studio (20-core M1 Ultra) Review
  9. Similarly switched to https://github.com/abiosoft/colima and have been happy with it.
    comment by navels · 2022-03-16 · in Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac
  10. It’s not clear to me what colima[0] adds to lima[1]. Does anyone know? [0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima [1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
    comment by cpach · 2022-02-13 · in Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs
  11. Give https://github.com/abiosoft/colima A try, I’ve been using it for a few months on both m1 and x64. It works really well.
    comment by jbreiding · 2022-01-28 · in Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
  12. podman: https://podman.io/ colima: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
    comment by salzig · 2022-01-28 · in Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
  13. While I haven’t run rancher desktop, i have been running colima. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima Which also is built on top of lima. It’s been great, some network wonkiness, and works on m1 perfectly. The rancher devs have been…
    comment by jbreiding · 2022-01-27 · in Rancher Desktop 1.0
  14. …I also recently found out about colima, but haven't tried it out. * https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
    comment by rmurri · 2022-01-05 · in Ask HN: What are you going to use instead of Docker Desktop for macOS?