

#CAN YOU RUN DOCKER ON MAC M1 FOR MAC#
Docker Desktop for Mac will let you do everything you’ve been able to do on a Mac already, and you’ll be able to do it faster and with less noise.Ī blog post on the Docker website says that M1 support "quickly became by far our most upvoted roadmap item ever" after it was first requested. To the many developers eager to know if they can use the latest Macs as a dev machine with Docker, the wait is over. The press release included the following statement from Docker Captain Ajeet Singh Raina: Advertisement The public release of the Apple Silicon version of Docker Desktop for Mac was installed 45,000 times in a technical preview, and Docker's press release says that developers participating in that preview said the application ran "faster and quieter" than it did before the M1 update. But some gaps remain-for example, Microsoft's Visual Studio 2019 IDE (which is distinct from the comparatively lightweight Visual Studio Code) has not been updated.ĭocker achieved popularity among developers because it enabled relatively easy use of containers, wherein multiple applications could be developed and tested on a single machine, sharing the operating system's kernel without interfering with one another. It follows the release of M1 versions of Homebrew, Visual Studio Code, and other developer tools and applications. Though the previous version of Docker did work via Apple's Rosetta solution, the introduction of an M1-native version of Docker contributes to a closing gap for developers concerned about running their entire suite of tools in an optimal way.
#CAN YOU RUN DOCKER ON MAC M1 SOFTWARE#
Further Reading Mac mini and Apple Silicon M1 review: Not so crazy after allThe M1 chip uses the ARM instruction set and cannot natively run software that was designed to run on the x86 architecture that the Intel processors in previously released Macs used.
