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OrbStack

Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS

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    2023-09-22

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OrbStack: A Lightweight Alternative for Docker

Practices for Docker on Mac Mini M2 Pro with OrbStack #mac #orbstack #docker #container

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We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you see what people think about OrbStack and what they use it for.
  • Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
    For a brief moment, I thought this was related to https://orbstack.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago
  • Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
    If you use a Mac and just want to mess around with linux try something like Orbstack(https://orbstack.dev/) to start up VMs and mess around. The benefit of this is you're going to break things a bunch as you get started. Going from there I'd start looking automating the deployment of the various components the 'old fashioned' way aka writing shell scripts/using SSH. Once you do that then go to using things like... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
  • NoSQL Postgres: Add MongoDB compatibility to your Supabase projects with FerretDB
    FerretDB provides a Docker image allowing us to run it locally, for example via Orbstack, with a couple of simple commands. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago
  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
    OrbStack | Founding Engineer | US/Europe REMOTE | Full-time | https://orbstack.dev OrbStack is making Docker containers & development environments delightful. Our app replaces Docker Desktop and makes containers faster, lighter, and easier to work with. It's the tool of choice for PlanetScale, Replicate, and other hot companies. Containers should be a joy to use, not something you have to put up with. Let's build... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • How Virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
    Before you give up, give OrbStack a try: https://orbstack.dev/ It’s significantly faster than Docker and some users in the Discord community have been able to use it to run hand-built Linux x86 VMs on Apple Silicon. It’s a paid product though, but you can download it for free and try it out before paying. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • Install Craft CMS v5 (alpha) with one command via DDEV
    If you haven't installed a Docker runtime, you might be happy with Orbstack. Other alternatives: DDEV docs: Docker installation. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
  • Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features
    OrbStack How does OrbStack compare? Anyone tried it yet? https://orbstack.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
  • Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
    For MacOS I can really recommend https://orbstack.dev It integrates very nicely, has very low CPU idle usage and also lets you quickly spawn VMs with bidirectional file sharing set up. Since I switched I haven't looked back. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
  • Spacedrive: Unify files from all your devices and clouds into one easy explorer
    OrbStack (https://orbstack.dev) has a very similar logo. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
    Recently came across Orb, it's a linux VM cum docker runtime. VM boots in seconds, access any folder on Mac as linux folder https://orbstack.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • macOS Containers v0.0.1
    OrbStack doesn’t require breaking security: https://orbstack.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

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