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by jcollins 2006 days ago
There is overhead for sure but if you use x86 containers on an Intel Mac or arm64 containers on an Apple Silicon mac, it's pretty performant.
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diveanon 2006 days ago
Can you share any details on M1 perf and resource consumption? Docker vm on mac is noticeably slower and consumes a lot of resources in my experience.
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jcollins 2006 days ago
The only thing I can say with confidence is that if you're using ARM containers it is really fast, probably thanks to the Apple Silicon.

I imagine memory consumption is on par with running on Intel. I don't think Docker Desktop can really change that.

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diveanon 2006 days ago
Honestly memory is the primary constraint for most of my mac devs running our docker envs.
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