If you're going full CLI on macOS, I've had the best experience with: brew install podman Podman manages the linux vm for you automatically. I've come to

If you're going full CLI on macOS, I've had the best experience with: brew install podman Podman manages the linux vm for you automatically. I've come to enjoy podman more than docker on my linux hosts anway; the default runtime (crun) is lighter than docker (runc), podman-kube-play is great for managing multi-container pods and is compatible with kubernetes. It also integrates very neatly with systemd. Of course there is the whole daemon-less and rootless side of the things as well..