[goodells]

This has been known and grudgingly tolerated by every team I’ve been on that uses Docker. Occasionally someone will get sick of it and introduce something like docker-sync [1], essentially just to rsync a directory instead of using a volume, then later someone else will find an issue with it and rip it out… usually on a 2-4 year cadence. It’s amazing this is still an issue for Docker Desktop on both Mac and Windows.

With their new nagging un-skippable updates, the future isn’t looking bright for this product.

[1] - http://docker-sync.io/

[noptd]

Agreed, and now they're charging up to $21 per user per month for large enterprises to use Docker Desktop for Mac after years of ignoring the community on issues like this.

Granted, you can still build and install the docker cli and use it to interface with the daemon running inside of a VM for free, but I doubt it'll be long until they close that loophole. My guess is they'll either move docker cli under the same licensing umbrella or simply make it too difficult for most users to build and run in a standalone fashion on MacOS.