Colima
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Assess
Colima provides container runtimes on macOS with minimal setup.
At AOE, we are using Colima as drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop.
The main benefits are
- Support of M1 Macs
- Simple CLI interface
as well as the usual requirements for container runtimes like
- Docker and Containerd support
- Port forwarding
- Volume mount
- Kubernetes