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I use Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop. It’s alright.

yebyen 5y ago
I have just started using it, and I stopped short of telling people it was a great alternative because I don't have enough experience with it yet to say one way or another. But so far it's pretty muchliving up to my expectations, with a few quirks: (1) I can use the buildkit plugin, at least it seems to work so far, but (2) things are not strictly compatible, for example the `kuby build` command has an issue and will need to be updated to support rancher desktop... it's refusing to log in right now, even though I logged into my registry already, with an error about not doing interactive logins without a TTY. I'm assuming there's an easy workaround, (but this part works fine with Docker Desktop already.) By your "it's alright" I suspect you've seen other things I'll bump into that made you say "alright" rather than "great." Anything interesting you're able to share?
- speedgoose 5y ago
  I indeed did bump into a few things. You can check my other comment about that : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118961
bproven 5y ago
I just pulled it (and switched to dockerd as default container runtime to use 'docker') - it seems to work as a great swap for docker desktop on mac. I like that volumes work well vs podman. Nice that you an trivy scan an image, etc. Have you hit any sharp edges yet? I imagine there might be a few. Anything you can share would be great
- speedgoose 5y ago
  Port forwarding is currently broken if you use dockerd but it will be fixed in the next release or you can run a command to fix it yourself. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/1250 https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/12... It fails to setup some filesystem links because of Unix permissions. You can fix it in command line. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/1155 https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/11... If you put your computer into sleep, the VM time will be out of sync. It's going to be fixed in the next release I believe. It's an old classic bug that happened to me with WSL so it was nice to see it again. https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/839 https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/83...
  - bproven 5y ago
    thanks! Looks like the first and last issue is fixed in 1.0.0 (released 2 days ago). So only that second issue remains for now.
    - speedgoose 5y ago
      That’s good news. I did miss the release.

I have just started using it, and I stopped short of telling people it was a great alternative because I don't have enough experience with it yet to say one way or another. But so far it's pretty muchliving up to my expectations, with a few quirks: (1) I can use the buildkit plugin, at least it seems to work so far, but (2) things are not strictly compatible, for example the `kuby build` command has an issue and will need to be updated to support rancher desktop... it's refusing to log in right now, even though I logged into my registry already, with an error about not doing interactive logins without a TTY. I'm assuming there's an easy workaround, (but this part works fine with Docker Desktop already.) By your "it's alright" I suspect you've seen other things I'll bump into that made you say "alright" rather than "great." Anything interesting you're able to share?

speedgoose 5y ago
I indeed did bump into a few things. You can check my other comment about that : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118961

bproven 5y ago

I just pulled it (and switched to dockerd as default container runtime to use 'docker') - it seems to work as a great swap for docker desktop on mac. I like that volumes work well vs podman. Nice that you an trivy scan an image, etc. Have you hit any sharp edges yet? I imagine there might be a few. Anything you can share would be great

speedgoose 5y ago
Port forwarding is currently broken if you use dockerd but it will be fixed in the next release or you can run a command to fix it yourself. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/1250 https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/12... It fails to setup some filesystem links because of Unix permissions. You can fix it in command line. See https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/1155 https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/11... If you put your computer into sleep, the VM time will be out of sync. It's going to be fixed in the next release I believe. It's an old classic bug that happened to me with WSL so it was nice to see it again. https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/839 https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/83...
- bproven 5y ago
  thanks! Looks like the first and last issue is fixed in 1.0.0 (released 2 days ago). So only that second issue remains for now.
  - speedgoose 5y ago
    That’s good news. I did miss the release.