Apple Containers seems to be all the hype right now. (besides all things AI) Against a common misconception, Docker is actually still free. Yes, you can pay the 5EUR but as a private user you are free to use Docker, including Docker Desktop. That being said, especially on a Mac, Docker still isn’t natively running, so you run Docker desktop, and then that under the hood basically starts a small Linux VM and in there your actual containers run. So let’s find out if Apple Containers actually let you run things natively, if the performance is better, how the usability is and so on.
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