Apple Container 0.9.0(github.com)
25 pointsby tosh5 hours ago3 comments
  • 14 minutes ago
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  • kylehotchkiss14 minutes ago
    Anybody tried running vscode server in this? I don’t want to run it on my macOS with no sandbox, I find the full file access in the browser to be uncomfortable. I’ve fought Colima before and ran it within there but the host/vm permissions for editing files in a projects folder were a pain.

    So it’d be cool if this or a sandbox tool could help.

  • bsaul4 hours ago
    is this à replacement for docker ?

    Super interesting that they're using swift. Does this mean the project is only a wrapper for system libraries ? I can't imagine writing low-level system code in swift yet.

    • timsneath3 hours ago
      Swift goes further down the stack than you might at first imagine -- there's a lot of Swift written at Apple even in places where you might expect C.

      The container CLI tool wraps the underlying Containerization framework, which in turn vends packages for things like EXT4 file system support -- all written in Swift. Here's one example as a jumping off point. https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/main/Sources/...

    • ironhaven4 hours ago
      I was going to rant about how containerization does not just mean Linux namespaces but that is what this is.

      This project is very similar to docker with a background daemon server that you control via a cli to launch Linux containers.

      Because Linux containers need Linux namespaces, each container is run in a virtual machine with a Linux kernel.

    • bahador4 hours ago
      > A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.

      apple.github.io/container/documentation/