I also wanted to shift to managed k8s or k3s cloud offerings instead. When working with Kubernetes, I am thinking of network reachable clusters and deployments, not necessarily on my Macbook. I've never used it though, maybe I missed the use case. Local Kubernetes?ĭocker Desktop ships with Kubernetes. The Apple Silicon M1 will introduce arm64 as architecture, where an additional requirement is to run arm64 and cross-build x86 container images, for example following this post. I'm still using Intel x86, MacBook refreshment happens in 2023. Docker buildx works great for multi-arch builds, my suggestion is to move the builds into CI/CD pipelines. The transparent port-forwarding from the underlying VM hypervisor is nice and always has been my favorite compared to custom docker-machine VMs with Parallels many years ago. I've been using Docker on the CLI to run development environments and demos with docker-compose stacks. If you are only interested in the alternatives, navigate into the following chapters: I won't go into detail on the changes, except for describing my use case and what I am looking for when evaluating alternatives. The Docker Desktop subscription changes required a new agreement until January 31, 2022. In this blog post, we look into podman, nerdctl, and Rancher Desktop as Docker Desktop alternatives on macOS. If the topic of virtualization interests you, check out some more of our posts on the subject.Docker changed its subscription model including Docker Desktop, thus generating more demand for alternatives. There are many other options available for virtualization, including the free UTM app which allows you to easily run Windows 11 on an Apple Silicon Mac for example, but there’s also paid solutions including VMWare and Parallels. Go to to find the appropriate download, listed as “Developer preview for macOS / Arm64 (M1/M2) hosts”.As usual, VirtualBox is completely free to download and to use. While technically in beta, anyone can get access to the developer preview beta ARM build of VirtualBox through the VirtualBox website. It does this by virtualizing hardware (that you can adjust to allocate RAM, storage capacity, etc), so the operating system itself doesn’t know that it’s not running on actual hardware. VirtualBox is virtualization software that allows you to run other operating systems in containers on your Mac directly from the application, for example you can run Linux or Windows directly within VirtualBox, and without having to use dual-booting or anything else.
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