You can find here a very detailed deep dive into this brilliant technology even though Microsoft still supports it, it has significant limitations in terms of performance and compatibility. The second one is that Microsoft tried in the past to natively support Linux processes by real-time converting syscalls to run unmodified Linux processes on the Windows kernel (WSL1). This implementation has been possible thanks to the joint effort of Microsoft and Docker in 2016 to create a container engine implementing the Docker specification on Windows kudos to you, MS.

Two things are worth mentioning here regarding Microsoft the first one is that Windows (and this sometimes can lead to some confusion) natively support Docker to run Windows containers.

Instead, Docker CLI and docker-compose are native binaries for all operating systems. How does Docker work on macOS? Docker architecture on macOS – Source ĭocker engine, on macOS and Windows, needs a Linux Kernel there aren’t any exceptions here, you do not see it, but it is there to do all the dirty jobs (HN: ) If you are VI/Emacs user, all you need is your editor and tools in a container, or if you want a minimal Linux GUI env, take some inspiration here.Use DDEV + Mutagen for PHP projects (JS coming soon).Use named volumes and if you use VSCode you can rely on things like DevContainers to have a good DX – 🚀 BONUS: PoC project with Backstage and DevContainers.VirtioFS to share the filesystem ( Docker Desktop, Rancher Desktop, Colima) – There are still some issues.

Community post by Paolo Mainardi originally published on Paolo’s personal blog TL DRĪt the time of writing, the only viable option to have a decent performance and a good DX are:

Docker on mac very slow