Macos Container
Apple just announced a way to run containers on macos. I dont believe its native, since it uses a kata vm to run the linux vm and then provides an api server to run these containers.
I have run them on macos 15, while all the features are said to be available on macos 26. It runs aarch64 images
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❯ container ls
Error: internalError: "failed to list containers" (cause: "interrupted: "XPC connection error: Connection invalid"")
❯ container system start
Verifying apiserver is running...
Installing base container filesystem...
No default kernel configured.
Install the recommended default kernel from [https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/download/3.17.0/kata-static-3.17.0-arm64.tar.xz]? [Y/n]: y
Installing kernel...
❯ container ls
ID IMAGE OS ARCH STATE ADDR
❯ container run -it alpine
/ # uname -a
Linux e23cf733-affc-4557-ba99-24cbf4ecf39f 6.12.28 #1 SMP Tue May 20 15:19:05 UTC 2025 aarch64 Linux
/ # ^C
❯ container images ls
NAME TAG DIGEST
alpine latest 8a1f59ffb675680d47db6337...code snippet end
Host networking also needs a work around at this time
sounds like a starting point, but still far away from being a daily driver in comparission to docker, podman, orbstack or even colima.