Has anyone tried installing Docker on macOS through Homebrew? I did, but the CLI didn’t work, so I reverted to downloading/installing Docker Desktop. (I don’t use Docker Desktop itself other than to start it so I have access to the CLI.)
I think the docker formula in Homebrew is just the CLI client and has to have a backend engine to talk to (which could be on a remote system). Pretty sure that if you want to make it actually rum anything on Mac you have to download the Desktop package.
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Ah, thank you, @rcabell. That makes sense.
As an alternative, you could get Rancher Desktop, which provides a transparent VM layer that facilitates other OS and potentially architecture support. E.g. I can run an Ubuntu Linux image on my Mac.
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Neat! I hadn’t heard of Rancher Desktop before, and now I’m interested in trying it. Thanks, @PhilMiller!
Nels pointed me to it
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