rancher-desktop

My day job makes this request of my team right now, and yet when trying to apply this logic to a container and cloud-native control plane, there are a lot more devils hiding in those details. Use MetalLB for everything, even if NLBs are available? Use Ceph for storage even if EBS is available? Definitely don't use Ceph on someone's 8GB laptop. I can keep listing "yes, but" items that make doing such a thing impossible to troubleshoot because there's not one consumer So, to circle back to your original point: rke2 (Apache 2) is a fantastic, airgap-friendly, intelligence community approved distribution, and pairs fantastic with rancher desktop (also Apache 2). It's not the kubernetes part of that story which is hard, it's the "yes, but" part of the lego build - https://github.com/rancher/rke2/tree/v1.33.1%2Brke2r1#quick-... - https://github

I don't want to dissuade you from Podman Desktop, because Podman is awesome in its own way, but I do hear you about the "uncanny valley" part. I wanted to offer that you don't have to jump all the way to podman (and Podman Desktop) just to escape the Docker Desktop licensing problem. There are a lot of alternatives which a whole spectrum of "I am CLI savvy or not" interaction experiences - Rancher Desktop is A++ and carries a friendly license https://rancherdesktop.io/ -> https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/blob/v1.1... - colima (and the lima it wraps) -> https://github.com/abiosoft/colima#readme - there's one from AWS called Finch <https://github.com/runfinch/finch> that some of my colleagues like better than colima; YMMV <https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an...>

Rancher Desktop is great! We use it as a free replacement for Docker Desktop and it works very well. Unfortunately, we cannot use the Kubernetes part of it because it comes with "steve" (used for dashboards), which uses and blocks (!) the same ports as our application, and those ports are not configurable. So, please please solve this request here: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/18...

Also: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop

So by doing what I said I have `docker` in Powershell. To recap, I have the following: Docker (CLI ONLY!!!) on Ubuntu on WSL as described here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/ sudo apt list --installed 2>&1 | grep docker docker-buildx-plugin/kinetic,now 0.10.2-1~ubuntu.22.10~kinetic amd64 [installed,automatic] docker-ce-cli/kinetic,now 5:23.0.0-1~ubuntu.22.10~kinetic amd64 [installed] docker-compose-plugin/kinetic,now 2.15.1-1~ubuntu.22.10~kinetic amd64 [installed,automatic] docker-compose/kinetic,now 1.29.2-2 all [installed] docker-scan-plugin/kinetic,now 0.23.0~ubuntu-kinetic amd64 [installed,automatic] python3-docker/kinetic,now 5.0.3-1 all [installed,automatic] python3-dockerpty/kinetic,now 0.4.1-4 all [installed,automatic] So I'd say start with installing docker-ce-cli Rancher Desktop from here: h

> docker desktop is pretty dead now that it's got restrictive licensing etc... It would probably be nice to hear more about why you think this is! I've certainly heard of some having to move away from Docker Desktop. However, at the scale where you need a license (250 employees or 10 million $ in annual revenue) it's not quite as big of an issue, especially at their current pricing per seat: https://www.docker.com/pricing/ > stick to standard open source tools like Colima etc... Sticking to open source is a great idea! I think mentioning that Colima runs on macOS and Linux only at the moment is also a good idea: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima A large market share of the Docker Desktop installs are Windows in particular (since it's "the one way" how most install Docker nowadays, as opposed to not really needing a GUI or the supporting

Great, then can you speak to whether rancher-desktop supports the "--platform" argument to "run" the same way that finch does? I wouldn't mind answering it myself, but it looks like rancher-desktop is an electron something or other: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/blob/v1.6... and even downloading the 500MB release zip shows that there's `Rancher Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl` hidden in it, but I'm a distrustful sort and I don't want to crawl through unlimited lines of typescript to find out what this is going to do to my system Maybe it's just that I'm not the right audience for this, since I am the polar opposite of "some gui fanciness," as I came up through the docker-machine universe, and now colima, and thus have a lot more comfort debugging CLI tooling when something inevitably g

Port forwarding is currently broken if you use dockerd but it will be fixed in the next release or you can run a command to fix it yourself. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/12... It fails to setup some filesystem links because of Unix permissions. You can fix it in command line. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/11... If you put your computer into sleep, the VM time will be out of sync. It's going to be fixed in the next release I believe. It's an old classic bug that happened to me with WSL so it was nice to see it again. https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/83...

If you want to install the Windows release[0] silently in a script, then use this (where X.Y.Z is the version number): .\Rancher.Desktop.Setup.X.Y.Z.exe /S --force-run --allusers It took me an hour to figure out the necessary arguments until I learned about some Electron-specific behavior in the installer[1]. [0] https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/releases [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/66906851

I'm hitting https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/56... but will look again in the future.