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Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2025-06-09 · latest 2026-08-10

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  1. …this), that will defeat the purpose. Because it's not about "it won't", but because "it can't". https://github.com/apple/containerization doesn't sound like what I am looking for. So is docker, lima etc are my only options? Not to mention…
  2. Reminds me of sandboxy - https://github.com/apple/containerization/tree/main/examples... Also if your thing doesn't work with `pi` out of the box, then low effort
  3. everyone loving these linux sandboxes, even Apple wrote one https://github.com/apple/containerization/tree/main/examples...
  4. …like EXT4 file system support -- all written in Swift. Here's one example as a jumping off point. https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/main/Sources/...
    comment by timsneath · 2026-02-08 · in Apple Container 0.9.0
  5. …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
  6. …recommend checking out Apple's container/containerization services which help accomplish just that. https://github.com/apple/containerization/
  7. The most notable change is probably the new native container runtime: https://github.com/apple/containerization Metal 4 is interesting: https://developer.apple.com/metal/whats-new/ New enterprise-y stuff:…
    comment by CharlesW · 2025-09-16 · in macOS Tahoe
  8. …- it's more or less an Apple-branded Docker runtime. It's not applicable to macOS software. [1]: https://github.com/apple/containerization
  9. …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:…
  10. …see mention of GRPC, sandboxes and containers in the binfmt_misc handling code, which is promising: https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/d1a8fae1aff6f...
  11. 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…
  12. …Linux kernel configuration[0] and a minimal root filesystem with a lightweight init system. [0]: https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/main/kernel/c...
  13. …but I haven't really dug in yet [1]. [0] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/346 [1] https://github.com/apple/containerization
  14. …using an optimized Linux kernel config, minroot filesystem, and a lightweight init system, vminitd https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/main/vminitd
  15. …that container uses is built in Swift and also open sourced today, along with the CLI tool itself: https://github.com/apple/containerization
  16. Seems to be this: https://github.com/apple/containerization
  17. …- Manage the runtime environment of virtual machines. [1] https://github.com/apple/container [2] https://github.com/apple/containerization
  18. …the Swift framework wrapping Virtualization.framework to implement an OCI runtime. [0]: https://github.com/apple/containerization
    comment by jzelinskie · 2025-06-09 · in Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime