nerdctl

> With this I believe you could also used [nerd](https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl) instead of podman but I haven't tested it yet. This is the first time I hear of nerdctl and it's _very_ interesting. M1 aside, does it work fine on regular arm64 linux? I run a small Raspberry Pi 4B homeserver and I would have used podman for improved security, were it not for the poor/incomplete Compose support, while nerdctl seems to explicitly support it.

It looks like the real nice thing here is having a formula for QEMU with the ARM patch applied: https://github.com/simnalamburt/qemu/tree/hvf With this I believe you could also used [nerd](https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl) instead of podman but I haven't tested it yet. Edit: It works. Had a bit of trouble since I wanted to uninstall the "real" QEMU first, but `lima` still depended on it, and then installing the patched QEMU needed to update the version of `lima` I had installed, which then tried to reinstall QEMU, which failed because of some symlinks which were now owned by the patched QEMU...

Lima[0] also looks like a promising replacement on macOS. It manages provisioning a VM with nerdctl[1] installed, networking, and shared storage. The project has a support path for ARM Macs with a patch QEMU. [0]: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima [1]: https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl

Another great Docker alternative from one of the containerd maintainers (Akihiro Suda) is https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl. It supports compose as well.