[seabrookmx]

Rancher desktop is also a viable option and free. Many including my work moved to it after Docker's new licensing kicked in.

IMO the real magic of Docker was the Docker/OCI image format. It's a brilliant way to perform caching and distribute container images, and it's really what still differentiates the workflow from "full" VM's.

[jml78]

My main dev machine is Linux so I use Rancher Desktop but I also have a MacBook Pro m1 machine. Orbstack is so much better than rancher and docker desktop. I know they are a small company but hell if their product isn’t significantly more efficient and better.

[throwaway817472]

Completely agree. I moved from docker desktop to rancher after an update blew away my kubernetes cluster, and then from Rancher to Orbstack due to a number of bugs that were crashing the underlying VM. Orbstack has been rock solid (aside from one annoying networking issue), and it uses significantly less battery. They’ve done a fantastic job.

[jml78]

Only complaint is that my home network assigns IPv6 addresses and that fucks up external dns lookups for pods in Orbstack.

[fl0id]

Podman-Desktop is also great b/c it now has gpu support on macOS (for the Linux container)

[moogly]

I could not get LocalStack to run on Podman (w/ Docker emulation), on Fedora, so had to go back to Docker.

[kdrag0n]

Love to hear that :) sent you an email about the k8s IPv6 issue — should be able to get it fixed in OrbStack

[seabrookmx]

Why not use Docker CE if you're on Linux?

[tryauuum]

Related to image format, has anyone tried to use alternative image formats? There was a differnt format / filesystem for containers to leverage deduplication between different images (so the node won't need to fetch yet another copy of cuda / pytorch)

[fire_lake]

This is common in the Bazel community.