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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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Observed mentions: 2016-07-29 13:01:41 UTC to 2026-01-30 01:28:34 UTC.

01020302016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 13 submissions, 19 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 4 submissions, 14 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 4 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 8 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321319
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18414
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC541
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1183
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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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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evbots·Jul 23, 2017
Over the past week I went through all the motions of setting up docker for mac with docker-compose for a local ruby/rails development environment. I was excited about the prospect of using containers to silo my app and all it's system dependencies, and also make it easier to onboard new developers. My setup had 3 containers. One for app, elasticsearch, and postgres. Unfortunately I have to go back to running my app directly on the system. I am leaving elasticsearch and postgres containerized, however. The docker for mac setup is seriously bottlenecked by slow volume read/write performance. There is an ongoing discussion here on the issue: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77. Even after adding the new :cached option to my volume declaration in docker-compose yml file, performance was a huge issue. My app leverages babel, as I write
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some react components in ES6 and transpile them to ship to the client. Right now transpilation after changing any javascript code results in a minute + of transpilation time as docker for mac has yet to solve the performance problem. This resulted in a totally unacceptable environment to write code and test in. Also, rails boot time on docker for mac was crazy slow. Running unit tests became a huge pain in the ass.
In Local Rails Development with Docker and Docker Compose
ledgerdev·Apr 23, 2017
As far as I know, docker for mac isn't actually usable for dev work if you use mounted volumes. Basically it pegs CPU and makes disk access 10-150 times slower than native which makes mounted volumes impossibly slow. A personal example would be building a jar on a macbook native took 11 seconds, takes docker for mac 9 minutes. See https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77 https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/668 and a slew of other reports that can all be traced back mounted volume performance. Moral of the story I moved to linux.
In Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?
djs55·Jan 20, 2017
(I work on Docker for Mac.) Apologies for the inconvenience this has caused. There was a race condition in a previous release which could allow multiple hypervisor instances to open the Docker.qcow2 simultaneously. Unfortunately this can corrupt the file by allocating the same physical block (cluster) twice, resulting in bad things happening. When this file-locking bug was fixed we also added an integrity check which checks the structure of the Docker.qcow2 on every application launch. For safety the app refuses to start if corruption is detected. I believe that in these cases, the corruption happened in the past and is now being detected since the upgrade. Unfortunately if the app refuses to start it makes it difficult to reach the "Reset to Factory defaults" menu option. The workaround described here https://github.com/docker/for-mac/is
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sues/1159#issuecomment-2... is to remove the qcow2 and restart the app. Unfortunately containers and images will need to be rebuilt. For what it's worth after the integrity check and the locking fix went in, I've not seen any recurrence of this error. Please open an issue if you see any other problems!
In What’s New in Docker 1.13?

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