Apple container announced
As you probably know, Apple is running WWDC 25, and yesterday there were a lot of exciting announcements. Among these, aside from the OS updates, Apple announced “container” and containerization support for macOS 26. Here are the key features: Manage OCI images Interact with remote registries Create and populate ext4 file systems Interact with the Netlink socket family Create an optimized Linux kernel for fast boot times Spawn lightweight virtual machines Manage the runtime environment of virtual machines Spawn and interact with containerized processes Use Rosetta 2 for executing x86_64 processes on Apple silicon In fact, the “container” client will be able to spawn a lightweight VM with an optimized Linux kernel and small rootFS, where you can run Linux containers using Rosetta 2 for executing x86 instructions. The interesting part from a security perspective is that every container will run isolated inside its own lightweight VM. ...