apple/container
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 9 days ago, with 124 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #3 in the weekly ranking the week of Jun 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Creates and runs Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on Mac optimized for Apple silicon.
- Offers native Swift implementation leveraging macOS 26 virtualization and networking features for efficient container management.
- Use for developing and testing containerized Linux applications directly on Apple silicon Macs.
- Use for building and publishing OCI-compatible container images to standard container registries.
- Use for integrating container management into Swift-based development workflows on macOS 26.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
containeris a tool that you can use to create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac. It's written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.The tool consumes and produces OCI-compatible container images, so you can pull and run images from any standard container registry. You can push images that you build to those registries as well, and run the images in any other OCI-compatible application.
containeruses the Containerization Swift package for low level container, image, and process management.You need a Mac with Apple silicon to run
container. To build it, see the BUILDING document.
containeris supported on macOS 26, since it takes advantage of new features and enhancements to virtualization and networking in this release. We do not support older versions of macOS and thecontainermaintainers typically will not address issues that cannot be reproduced on the latest macOS 26 beta.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
1.8K+133
Open issues
583+89
Compared with peers in iOS
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| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
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| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.3K | +839 | 65 | 4 days ago |
| crmne/zapfast | 3.1K | +839 | 60 | 2 days ago |
| makecindy/cindy | 9.3K | +771 | 45 | today |
| apple/container | 51.0K | — | 65 | 9 days ago |
| Category median | 9.3K | +839 | 45 | — |
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