Prepare yourself for an onslaught of ‘you’re holding the container wrong’
Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon has been released, although it’s not quite the seamless conversion some may expect. Declaring that getting Docker Desktop working on Apple’s M1 chip as «by far our most upvoted roadmap item ever,» the company is naturally chuffed that container fans selecting Apple’s latest hardware can now also crank out code using its tooling. Rosetta 2, aimed at getting x64 apps up and running on Apple Silicon, only goes so far and to get the virtual machine that lurks beneath the hood of Docker Desktop, the company had to make the jump to Apple’s new hypervisor framework as well as deal with all the associated plumbing.
