@proud-dentist-22844: does colima expose the same HTTP API as docker?

uhm. I use the standard

docker

cli to interact with it.

our integration on the rust side uses the bollard crate, which uses the HTTP api

Should work just fine. Colima works on top of Lima. Lima provides a linux VM and then Colima runs an image with docker (or containerd) installed in it . Then it uses socket forwarding to make it available. Instead of a graphical GUI like docker for mac, I use the CLI to start/stop that VM:

colima start -p docker

(I customize the colima profile name - you could leave the

-p ...

off) and

colima stop -p docker

. So, in my PyCharm config, I pass it the path to a unix socket to use for TCP communication:

unix:///Users/<user>/.colima/<colima_profile>/docker.sock

The only difference I can think of is if you’re adding workarounds for docker-for-mac based on platform detection

i am, yea. it’s possible that

colima

used with

virtiofs

won’t suffer from https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18162, but until users have tested, i won’t be able to tell. and we don’t have a great repro… sigh.

Sounds like a plan. I just saw the title of your PR and thought I'd warn you about more dragons lurking around docker on mac.

thank you!

interesting. I’ve got a bit out of touch regarding docker as I no longer use it on a daily basis… and have totally missed colima.