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by speedgoose 1603 days ago
I use Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop. It’s alright.
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I have just started using it, and I stopped short of telling people it was a great alternative because I don't have enough experience with it yet to say one way or another.

But so far it's pretty muchliving up to my expectations, with a few quirks: (1) I can use the buildkit plugin, at least it seems to work so far, but (2) things are not strictly compatible, for example the `kuby build` command has an issue and will need to be updated to support rancher desktop... it's refusing to log in right now, even though I logged into my registry already, with an error about not doing interactive logins without a TTY. I'm assuming there's an easy workaround, (but this part works fine with Docker Desktop already.)

By your "it's alright" I suspect you've seen other things I'll bump into that made you say "alright" rather than "great." Anything interesting you're able to share?

I indeed did bump into a few things. You can check my other comment about that : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118961
I just pulled it (and switched to dockerd as default container runtime to use 'docker') - it seems to work as a great swap for docker desktop on mac. I like that volumes work well vs podman. Nice that you an trivy scan an image, etc.

Have you hit any sharp edges yet? I imagine there might be a few. Anything you can share would be great

Port forwarding is currently broken if you use dockerd but it will be fixed in the next release or you can run a command to fix it yourself. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/12...

It fails to setup some filesystem links because of Unix permissions. You can fix it in command line. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/11...

If you put your computer into sleep, the VM time will be out of sync. It's going to be fixed in the next release I believe. It's an old classic bug that happened to me with WSL so it was nice to see it again. https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/83...

thanks!

Looks like the first and last issue is fixed in 1.0.0 (released 2 days ago). So only that second issue remains for now.

That’s good news. I did miss the release.