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Fast, light, simple Docker and Linux on your Mac. Say goodbye to slow, clunky containers and VMs. Built by @kdrag0n 🚀 orbstack.dev (hiring! DM us)
- Dynamic memory is now out in stable OrbStack v1.7.0! Memory usage is finally a solved problem orbstack.dev/blog/dynamic-m…
00:00 - orbstack x ghostty!Yeah! @OrbStack 2.0 embedded Ghostty as their built-in terminal (via libghostty). If you use OrbStack, you're now also using Ghostty. So cool to see this. I think we'll only see more of this when libghostty stabilizes and gets packaged properly.
- OrbStack 1.2 is here! ✨ Native access to container files, with Finder and your favorite tools No more "docker cp" or "docker exec" orbstack.dev/blog/orbstack-…
00:00 - We've launched first-class Kubernetes support in OrbStack 0.17.0! 🌎 Seamless Networking. Connect to pods, ClusterIPs, LoadBalancers directly from Mac. ⚡️ Battery Friendly. Up to 80% less power usage. ✨ Native macOS UI for pods & services. docs.orbstack.dev/kubernetes/
- Truly fast container filesystems on macOS: 2–10x faster, within 75-95% of native. Slow installs, startup, etc. have plagued Docker/containers on macOS since the beginning. We've fixed this in OrbStack 1.6
- OrbStack 1.1 is here! HTTPS+domains for your containers in 6 seconds orbstack.dev/blog/orbstack-…
00:00 - OrbStack 1.3 is here! ✨ Cloud-init for machines: easily test/replicate/debug dev envs, EC2 instances, and other Linux setups. Same user data format as cloud providers. ✨ Kubernetes cluster.local domains for services & pods orbstack.dev/blog/orbstack-…
- OrbStack v0.15.0 released with auto data migration from Docker Desktop, plus many other improvements and fixes! docs.orbstack.dev/release-notes#… ✨ Keep your containers, volumes, and images when switching from Docker Desktop
00:00 - OrbStack 1.8 released: 🐞 Debug Shell for stopped containers 🔨 Debug Shell for built images 🌎 Auto container-to-container HTTPS docs.orbstack.dev/release-notes#…
- Dynamic memory! No more randomly high memory usageBeen brewing for a long time: dynamic memory!!! Now out in OrbStack 1.7.0 Canary: memory is auto-released when no longer used, even while containers/machines are running This has been a problem since containers on macOS were a thing docs.orbstack.dev/release-notes#…
00:00 - Big release! OrbStack v0.12.0: docs.orbstack.dev/release-notes#… ✨ You can now connect to Docker containers directly by IP! Port forwarding isn't the only way anymore. • macOS bridge network for Docker and machines • Log viewer improvements • Full M2 Ultra support
- OrbStack 1.4 is here! 🚨 Security fixes ✨ New UI design to show more info ✅ Several requested features (shell completions, custom machine usernames, etc.) docs.orbstack.dev/release-notes#…
