install docker on mac without docker desktop

The reason I am disabling the built-in Kubernetes component is the following that I am using KinD (Kubernetes in Docker) as my local Kubernetes setup providing a near identical setup locally what I am using in Azure with AKS. When you have installed Rancher Desktop and start it for the first time you are greeted by the initial configuration screen.Īs I do not want to use the built-in Kubernetes component of Rancher Desktop, I uncheck it and switching the container runtime from containerd to dockerd. So, here we are again talking about how to replace Docker Desktop on macOS with Rancher Desktop. Kubernetes can be disabled to run just containerd or dockerd by itself for reduced resource consumption. Also, the host volume mount performance is now as good what Docker Desktop provides. Since Rancher Desktop version 1.1.0, which has been released a couple of days ago, you can finally disable the Kubernetes component just using containerd or dockerd as your container runtime.

Rancher Desktop instead was promising but the host volume mount performance was not that what I am used to, and you could not disable the Kubernetes component. Podman Machine was out very quickly without support for host volume mounts. Last year I wrote a blog post about running Podman on macOS with Multipass as a Docker Desktop replacement.īack at that time I had looked also into Podman Machine and Rancher Desktop.

Install docker on mac without docker desktop