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I’m now updating this post to reflect that colima is now my recommendation - although Rancher Desktop remains a perfectly viable choice (particularly if you prefer a bit of GUI action to configure things!). It feels more streamlined and performant with some additional useful configuration options, as well as just less noisy.

Updated : Several months back I made the switch from Rancher Desktop to colima and haven’t looked back. Hopefully having these options together in one blog post is somewhat helpful in choosing between them too! These are of course noted wherever I’ve used them, with a few tweaks of my own I’ve made on top of these excellent guides. I tried out three four options for Mac - landing on one as my preference as it covered both the need to run on the newer Apple Silicon and allow mounting of volumes on the host OS, which is something I do fairly frequently (mostly to shorten the feedback loop when testing changes that run on an image intended to run in CI).ĭisclaimer: Most of the steps detailed below were found through following other fantastic blog posts I found out there 👏.

This article will mostly focus on MacOS, although there is a brief note about Windows/WSL included for completeness too. Without going into any detail about it, let’s just say I’m not a fan of taking something that you’ve made freely available previously and deciding that you now want to charge for it!įrom this ‘Is Docker in Trouble?’ Blog Post This has made doing Docker related stuff go from impossible (due to the poor performance) to joyful.In this blog post I’m going to talk through my recent experiences as I attempted to ditch Docker Desktop - the licensing changes that come into effect at the end of January being the primary motivator.

Actually, I set up a reverse SSH tunnel to my beefy work computer, which is the thing doing the actual work. The best performing one, which is what I am using, is having a dedicated VPS. There is no mention of ARM vs x86 in his article, but since running an x86 VM is only possible using Parallels (AFAIK, VMWare and VirtualBox is a no go) that might not be an option. This great article compares several approaches for speeding up Docker on Mac, and all the best performing ones use `Mutagen` to sync your working dir to the Linux host. The by far best option I have tried so far is simply not running Docker on the mac: instead delegating it to a dedicated x86 Linux host.

Docker on Apple Silicon (ARM) is tenfolds worse, like described in the first posts here, but the worst place to be is where I am: having to use a specific old Ubuntu Docker image that only exists for x86 and then having to run it on an ARM Mac ? Docker performance on a mac has always had terrible file system performance, just try adding a watcher task in any project.