Name: OrbStack
Rating: 5.0 (11 reviews)

OrbStack is a fast, light, and simple way to run containers and Linux machines on macOS. It's a supercharged alternative to Docker Desktop and WSL, all in one easy-to-use app.

I recently booted up a new macbook and spent about an hour trying (unsuccessfully) to get docker desktop to work reliably.
On my previous macbook, about once a day docker desktop would become unresponsive, and the only way i could get it to reopen was to restart my entire machine.
So this is a tribute to orbstack, which afiact is a full drop in replacement.
To be honest i havent thought about it once since i installed it, and that is amazing :)

OrbStack is rocket-fast—no more suffering through the snail pace of Docker Desktop! 🚀

Tinybird Local needs a Docker runtime. We use Orbstack, and it's great.

Using orbstack I could run our local Kubernetes cluster easily. beforehand, using docker, my mac was not breathing.

OrbStack is rocket-fast—no more suffering through the snail pace of Docker Desktop! 🚀

Tinybird Local needs a Docker runtime. We use Orbstack, and it's great.

Using orbstack I could run our local Kubernetes cluster easily. beforehand, using docker, my mac was not breathing.

OrbStack

Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS

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