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A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.

90 mentions on Hacker News by 77 people: 8 stories, 82 comments · first 2025-06-09 · latest 2026-10-12

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  1. i've been using a sort of version like this... using the apple container fw. http://github.com/apple/container have you looked into that?
    comment by randall · 2026-01-12 · in Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir
  2. …container networking using apple's new container tool [1]. I know I could just use Docker... [1] https://github.com/apple/container/issues/670
    comment by jpeeler · 2025-12-19 · in GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
  3. …a native Linux container[1] tool.. because Linux was eating their lunch in this user segment. [1]: https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by seabrookmx · 2025-11-12 · in Steam Machine
  4. Not disagreeing with any of your points, but this is a good trend right? https://github.com/apple/container > container is a tool that you can use to create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac. It's written…
    comment by dbtc · 2025-11-10 · in Asus Ascent GX10
  5. …in order to cull the die space, and they seem to be going out of their way not to do this. [1] https://github.com/apple/container -- uses Rosetta translation for x64 images.
    comment by electroly · 2025-10-28 · in Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28
  6. …Their new containerization stuff was the best workflow improvement for me in quite a while. [0] https://github.com/apple/containerization [1] https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by luizfelberti · 2025-10-28 · in Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28
  7. https://github.com/apple/container They released this a while ago which has hints of supporting amd64 beyond the Rosetta end date.
    comment by physicsguy · 2025-10-28 · in Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28
  8. There is now work from Apple in that direction: https://github.com/apple/container No idea what the future of that project, or its potential integration with other container management systems might be, but it is certainly interesting at…
    comment by zbentley · 2025-10-24 · in Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
  9. There’s also https://github.com/apple/container now
    comment by shepherdjerred · 2025-10-24 · in Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
  10. I wonder if you’ll find apples native contains support useful at all https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by shepherdjerred · 2025-10-24 · in Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
  11. What about this: https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by _false · 2025-10-21 · in Show HN: Katakate – Dozens of VMs per node for safe code exec
  12. Tahoe can also: https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by matthew-wegner · 2025-10-18 · in Tahoe's Elephant
  13. Have you tried Apple's "container" tool? https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by cbm-vic-20 · 2025-10-15 · in M5 MacBook Pro
  14. …with macOS 26. Edit: each container still gets its own vm but the container runtime is now native. https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by LTL_FTC · 2025-09-23 · in I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
  15. There is support [1] for containers. [1]: https://github.com/apple/container#requirements
    comment by dhruvkb · 2025-09-16 · in macOS Tahoe
  16. …start in ~100ms and have better security. I updated to Tahoe just for this. And it's open-source: https://github.com/apple/container It's not really supported before Tahoe, presumably due to required hypervisor support.
    comment by w10-1 · 2025-09-15 · in macOS Tahoe
  17. https://github.com/apple/container is supported from macOS 26
    comment by ftigis · 2025-09-15 · in macOS Tahoe
  18. …the corps that have a predictable hardware refresh schedule but I've never worked in such a place https://github.com/apple/container#:~:text=is%20supported%20...
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-09-06 · in I ditched Docker for Podman
  19. …`container` [1] will eat up a ton of their business when it ships properly in a month or two. [1]: https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by jen20 · 2025-09-06 · in I ditched Docker for Podman
  20. …26 Tahoe, and mostly in macOS 15 Sequoia, Apple is beginning to provide a first-party solution: https://github.com/apple/container I've been experimenting with it in macOS 15, and I was able to replace Colima entirely for my purposes.…
    comment by isomorphic · 2025-08-23 · in I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can
  21. The timing on this sucks. I would love to see what DHH would do with the new https://github.com/apple/container thing coming in OSX26
    comment by adenta · 2025-08-12 · in All-In on Omarchy at 37signals
  22. …dumb. Working on something to reduce these possibilities by leveraging Apple's containers[1]. 1. https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by mkagenius · 2025-07-24 · in Hacker slips malicious 'wiping' command into Amazon's Q AI coding assistant
  23. …Would love to hear what people think or chat about how it compares. 1. Apple container: https://github.com/apple/container 2. CodeRunner: https://github.com/BandarLabs/coderunner Caveat: You need M1/M2/M3/M4 mac for this to work. MacOS 26…
    comment by mkagenius · 2025-07-13 · in Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
  24. …I did have to resize my terminal for this to work, but that could be a terminal emulator issue. [1] https://github.com/apple/container
    comment by None4U · 2025-06-21 · in Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
  25. …a helper to translate code using non-native architecture. Actually, they explain it in detail here: https://github.com/apple/containerization/issues/70#issuecom... It's unclear whether this will keep being supported in macOS 28+, though:…
    comment by ilyagr · 2025-06-10 · in Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
  26. It seems to work on macOS 15 as well, with some limitations[0]. [0] https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-...
    comment by selkin · 2025-06-10 · in Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
  27. Not yet: https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-...
    comment by dontdoxxme · 2025-06-10 · in Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
  28. The submission is about https://github.com/apple/containerization , not https://github.com/apple/container . The former is for apps to ship with container sidecars (and cooler news IMO); the latter is 'I am a developer and I want to…
    comment by OJFord · 2025-06-09 · in Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
  29. Seems prebuilt packages were released exactly one minute after your comment: https://github.com/apple/container/releases/tag/0.1.0
    comment by n2d4 · 2025-06-09 · in Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
  30. …its own lightweight Linux VM. Can take it for a spin by downloading the container tool from here: https://github.com/apple/container/releases (needs macOS 26)
    comment by commandersaki · 2025-06-09 · in Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
  31. The CLI from the press release/WWDC session is at https://github.com/apple/container which I think is what many like myself would be interested in. I was hoping this'd be shipped with the newest Xcode Beta but that doesn't seem to be the…
    comment by sangeeth96 · 2025-06-09 · in Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
  32. …- Spawn lightweight virtual machines. - Manage the runtime environment of virtual machines. [1] https://github.com/apple/container [2] https://github.com/apple/containerization
    comment by 12_throw_away · 2025-06-09 · in Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc