project

Apple container

Apple's command-line tool for running Linux containers and long-lived Linux virtual machines on Apple silicon Macs, with each workload in its own lightweight VM managed by launchd agents.

Known aliases

apple/container
container CLI

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Debian 13 boots as an Apple container machine only after a Dockerfile supplies /sbin/init

A Linux guest under Apple's container CLI cannot reach Metal. So the setup that works keeps the app in a Debian machine and calls Ollama on the Mac at 192.168.64.1. One run there measured 45.2 tok/s.

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Reality

Evidence58
Adoption15
Hype gap−5
Incentives28
Confidence55