In the original post — https://mrsauravsahu.medium.com/containers-and-kubernetes-on-macos-a-setup-for-2022-2bbba491f644 I discussed what my setup for containers and Kubernetes looks like, for 2022, when we’re back to coding after the holidays! 😉 There, I mainly discussed alternatives to Docker Desktop and introduced colima as my go-to solution for creating, managing and running containers and how these can be used with the integrated Kubernetes Setup colima provides.
After using colima for a couple of weeks now, I’d like to share with you some tweaks I’ve made to improve my experience.
Use Docker (sorry containerd)
colima supports both docker and containerd runtimes and I planned on ditching docker entirely in my previous post in the setup. After using containerd for a while, I want to backtrack a little bit.
In terms of creating and running containers, I had no issues whatsoever with containerd. I even published images to the Github Container Registry without any issues.
Issues with containerd
- containerd compose: I experimented with containerd when I was running my personal website’s (mrsauravsahu.in) code locally. This site has a few services which I run with
docker…
