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What is going on with Docker?

• headmelted 5y ago
  Just going to assume this is due to how the hypervisor on macOS won't allow dynamic memory allocation to the runtime. On a Mac, you need to allocate a fixed amount of RAM to Docker, which isn't the case on other platforms where it can dynamically allocate and release as much as your containers demand. It's very painful in workloads that need Docker. Especially on MacBooks where you can't upgrade the RAM to compensate.
  • dharmab 5y ago
    Your assumption is incorrect. This is about Docker Inc starting to charge money for Docker Desktop: https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/ https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/
    • headmelted 5y ago
      It certainly was. Yikes.
• codys 5y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28369570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28369570 (while on linux one can use the docker command line tool without any docker desktop thing, on mac docker desktop wraps together running a linux vm to run the docker daemon & containers inside, making it the most straight forward way of running docker on mac)