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Re:Docker Raises $23M by IgorPartola on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:09PM (#26482152)
Portability is key. Being able to run an Ubuntu container on macOS is a killer feature.
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Re:Docker Raises $23M by hda111 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:49AM (#26488129)
FreeBSD can run use LinuxJail to run a Ubuntu jail (it’s not a VM). I wonder why a billion $ company like docker can’t do this with Linux on macOS. It seems so obvious.
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Re:Docker Raises $23M by pjmlp on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:56PM (#26482859)
Containers aren't virtual machines.
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Re:Docker Raises $23M by m463 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:28PM (#26484043)
In the macos case, they actually are. docker runs in a vm on macos.

Actually, I believe one text file is the docker killer feature.

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Re:Docker Raises $23M by pjmlp on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @07:17PM (#26484471)
Nowhere in what makes a proper container does a VM come into play, unless we are speaking about Docker and the idea of shipping a full blown OS in a zip, to work across heterogeneous hardware.
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Re:Docker Raises $23M by inetknght on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:40PM (#26485147)
Yeah so the Docker daemon on a Mac is run inside of a VM.
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Re:Docker Raises $23M by pjmlp on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:02AM (#26487803)
Because they bundle a x86 GNU/Linux package as a runtime.

It doesn't work bare metal for the new macs, and it is extra bloat instead of making use of macOS capabilities.

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Re:Docker Raises $23M by m463 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:50PM (#26499532)
It doesn't work bare metal for any mac. It runs in a VM.

Too bad apple didn't help out docker with a macos native version.

  FROM macos:10.13.3 
  RUN xcode-build
would have been really useful
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