Things won’t be as close to bare metal as they are in Linux. Because of this, you need to allocate CPU cores and RAM for the VM. To make all this possible, a light Alpine Linux image is fired up underneath with xhyve MacOS native virtualization. It gives you the whole Docker API available from the terminal, even though Docker itself wasn’t created to work on Macs. Almost.ĭocker for Mac is a pretty smart invention. Are you a Linux user who switched to Mac when you saw that Docker is now available as a native Mac app? Have you heard how great Docker is and want to give it a try? Did you think that you could just take your Docker Compose file, launch your project, and have everything work out for you? Well… you were right.
