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Apple Container

Dagger can be used with any OCI-compatible container runtime, including container from Apple.

:::warning The support for Apple's container is still early and experimental. :::

Prerequisites

Ensure that container is installed on your Mac:

console
$ container system start
...

You can install container using the official instruction at github.com/apple/container.

Example

console
$ container ls
ID  IMAGE  OS  ARCH  STATE  ADDR  CPUS  MEMORY
$ dagger core version
v0.18.19
$ container ls
container ls
ID                      IMAGE                               OS     ARCH   STATE    ADDR          CPUS  MEMORY
dagger-engine-v0.18.19  registry.dagger.io/engine:v0.18.19  linux  arm64  running  192.168.64.4  4     8192 MB

Resources

If you have any questions about additional ways to use Apple's container with Dagger, join our Discord and ask your questions in our #macos channel.

About Apple's container

Apple's container is a tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.