Docker for Mac Experimental TRIM Support Added to fix diskspace usage leak issue
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I spent close to 12 hours yesterday trying to get a fairly simple node app to run on my mac yesterday. Turned out I had to wipe out docker completely and reinstall. Keep in…
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Docker Desktop for Mac
NoteThis repository is being sunset in favor of desktop-feedback.
Existing issues will remain here but will be moved to the new repository as they are updated.
Getting Docker Desktop for Mac
Docker Desktop for Mac is free to download.
Documentation
If you don't understand something about Docker Desktop for Mac, the extensive
documentation is a great place
to look for answers.
Support
Support for Docker Desktop is available to Docker customers on a Pro or Team plan
by completing the Desktop support form.
Bugs with the Docker Desktop for Mac software can be filed as issues in this
(docker/for-mac) repository, which we respond to
on a best-effort basis. Support requests in this repository (i.e., trouble installing
or using the software) will be ignored, but community support is available from the
Docker community Slack.
This Repository
This repository contains an issue tracker for Docker Desktop for Mac -- an
integrated Docker experience on OS X or macOS. If you find a problem
with the software, first browse the existing
issues or search from the bar
at the top (s to focus) and then, if you don't find your issue, open
a new issue.
Component Projects
Docker Desktop for Mac uses many open source components. A full list of
components and licenses is available inside of Docker Desktop from About Docker Desktop -> Acknowledgements in the 🐳 menu.
Some notable components include:
HyperKit, a toolkit for
embedding hypervisor capabilities in your application
DataKit, a tool to orchestrate
applications using a 9P dataflow
VPNKit, a set of tools and
services for helping HyperKit VMs interoperate with host VPN
configurations
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9 sourcesAgreed. Forget usage leaks, Docker for Mac doesn't even work on my system, and five days later after reporting it, nobody cares. It used to work, many versions ago, but they've somehow broken it entirely between redesigning the UI 2-3 times and switching from VirtualBox (which worked) to OSX Virtualization (which so far doesn't). See https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/984
In addition, they don't seem to care that the whole thing is useless in China - https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/28791 - also after emailing, no response.
I have contributed to Docker since very early days but am frankly not using it now because the project has for all intents and purposes entered a toxic-to-the-community stage where hype and marketing exceed capacity to resolve issues, total fails are occurring for me on all platforms, and AFAIK nobody in t
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heir over-funded San Franciscan office bubble seems to care. It's a typically arrogant startup: not listening to users, heading for a fall.
It's like they've decided to re-invent downloads (badly), re-invent cross-platform hypervisors (badly), re-invent orchestration (badly), re-invent storage (badly) and roll it all up in branded glue. I can't help but wonder if an approach with broader applicability and longevity would segregate the OS (anything container or VM-like at any layer, from Erlang to BSD jails to diskless clusters), and environment paradigm (container-based, paravirtualization-based, bare metal) from the workload and truly enable infrastructure agnoticism by removing the dependency on a single shifting-sands component, and allowing people to A/B test identical workloads on disparate paradigm infrastructures. I tried a few years ago, it worked: http://stani.sh/walter/cims
Disk space usage leak in Docker for Mac
67 points · Open discussionIf they would fix this one issue[1], or make it super-easy to use an alternative to osxfs, I would have switched to Docker already.
[1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77
In VirtualBox 5.1.8I spent close to 12 hours yesterday trying to get a fairly simple node app to run on my mac yesterday. Turned out I had to wipe out docker completely and reinstall. Keep in mind this is their stable version thats no longer in beta. I've just run into too many documented bugs for me to consider it stable. I wouldn't even say it should be out of beta.
The issues here are the real telling story: I spent close to 12 hours yesterday trying to get a fairly simple node app to run on my mac yesterday. Turned out I had to wipe out docker completely and reinstall. Keep in mind this is their stable version thats no longer in beta. I've just run into too many documented bugs for me to consider it stable. I wouldn't even say it should be out of beta.
The issues here are the real telling story. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues
I love docker, it
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's amazing when it works. It's just really not there yet. I get that their focus is on making money right now, but they need to nail their core product first. I honestly don't care about whatever cloud platform they're building if their core app doesn't even work reliably.
Actually GA may have fixed this. I was able to reproduce it, but may have checked too quickly. I opened https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/17 against it, and may end up closing it.
In Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for ProductionThis bug's been driving us mad because we can't reliably repro it on our machines at Docker, and it only happens to a small subset of users, but is very annoying when it goes trigger. It seems to be related to the OSX version involved, but there's not enough bug reports to reliably hone in on it.
The other aspect that it may be is a long-running Docker.app -- since as developers we are frequently killing and restarting the application, it could happen after a period of time. I've now got two laptops that I work on, and one of them has no Homebrew or developer tools installed outside of containers, and runs the stable version of Docker.app that's just been released. If this can trigger the bug, we will hunt it down and fix it :-) In the meanwhile, if anyone can trigger it and get a backtrace of the com.docker process, that would be mos
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t helpful. Bug reports can go on https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues
If you have the time, could you make a report on the issue tracker https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues and include the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and "scutil --dns" when you connect and disconnect to your VPN? Ideally also include an example resolution of a name by the host with something like "dig @server internalname". I suspect the problem is caused by a DNS server in the "scutil" list being missing from /etc/resolv.conf. We're planning on watching the "scutil --dns" list for changes, but it's not implemented completely yet.
In Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for ProductionThis seems to work fine for me:
docker run -it -v /private/etc/passwd:/etc/passwd alpine sh
(not recommended for any actual use obviously)
Is there a particular case in which this failed for you? We'd appreciate a bug report on https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues (or from the Docker for Mac GUI, just click on "Diagnose and Feedback") so we can chase down whatever issue you're having.
In Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production