Apple Quietly Launches Container On GitHub To Bring Linux Development To macOS
'A report from NERDS.xyz: Apple has released a new developer tool on GitHub called Container, offering a fresh approach to running Linux containers directly on macOS. Unlike Docker or Podman, this tool is designed to feel at home in the Apple ecosystem and hooks into frameworks already built into the operating system. Container runs standard OCI images, but it doesn't use a single shared Linux VM. Instead, it creates a small Linux virtual machine for every container you spin up. That sounds heavy at first, but the VMs are lightweight and boot quickly. Each one is isolated, which Apple claims improves both security and privacy. Developers can run containerized workloads locally with native macOS support and without needing to install third-party container platforms.' -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/06/11/2116233 Cheers, Peter
On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:37:10 +1200, Peter Reutemann qwuoted:
'Container runs standard OCI images, but it doesn't use a single shared Linux VM. Instead, it creates a small Linux virtual machine for every container you spin up. That sounds heavy at first, but the VMs are lightweight and boot quickly. Each one is isolated, which Apple claims improves both security and privacy.'
Or they could run proper Linux containers under a single Linux VM, to make things even more lightweight while taking advantage of built-in Linux capabilities that improve both security and privacy.
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