Meet container: Apple’s Open-Source Swift Tool for Running Linux Containers as Lightweight VMs on Apple Silicon
Apple research team recently released the container project . It is an open-source command-line tool written in Swift. It creates and runs Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. The project ships under the Apache 2.0 license and targets Apple silicon. Containers are how you ship reproducible environments from a laptop to a datacenter. Apple now offers a native path that avoids a single always-on Linux VM. What is Apple’s container ? container is a CLI tool that can be used to build images, run containers, and move images to and from registries. It consumes and produces OCI-compatible container images. So you can pull from Docker Hub or GitHub Container Registry and run those images. You can also push images you build to any standard registry. container uses the open-source Containerization Swift package. That package handles low-level container, image, and process management. The tool requires a Mac with Apple silicon. Intel Macs are not su...
