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container

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.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it 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.

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Where it is used

  • Davit — Davit is a shipped native macOS application that connects to Apple's container runtime to run and manage Linux containers on macOS. Source

What people are saying

This looks nice, but on mac you can virtualise really easily into microvms now with https://github.com/apple/container. I've built my own cli that runs the agent + docker…

te_chris used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:03:30 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month90 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-06-09 20:42:23 UTC to 2026-10-12 09:40:14 UTC.

0510152025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 2 submissions, 9 commentsJun 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 commentsFeb 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 3 submissions, 14 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsOct 2026

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC1129
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC606
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC909
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC716
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC514
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC17314
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Sep 20262026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20262026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

9 sources
electroly·Oct 28, 2025
While true, we're not talking about the chips losing TSO; Apple plans to keep Rosetta 2 for games and it has to remain fast because, well, it's video games. It also seems like they plan to keep their container tool[1]. This means they can't get rid of TSO at the silicon level and I have not heard this discussed as a possibility. We're only discussing the loss of the software support here. The answer to "How much die area does it use that could be used for performance?" is zero--they have chosen to do a partial phase-out that doesn't permit them to save the die space. They'd need to kill all remaining Rosetta 2 usage in order to cull the die space, and they seem to be going out of their way not to do this. [1] https://github.com/apple/container -- uses Rosetta translation for x64 images.
In Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28
luizfelberti·Oct 28, 2025
They barely just released Containerization Framework[0] and the new container[1] tool, and they are already scheduling a kneecapping of this two years down the line. Realistically, people are still going to be deploying on x64 platforms for a long time, and given that Apple's whole shtick was to serve "professionals", it's really a shame that they're dropping the ball on developers like this. Their new containerization stuff was the best workflow improvement for me in quite a while. [0] https://github.com/apple/containerization [1] https://github.com/apple/container
In Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28

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