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Dory
Docker environment for Mac developers
WHO USES ITMac developers weighing Docker Desktop's licence · Anyone needing local Kubernetes · Coding-agent operators
Install to use
Docker Desktop alternative for Apple Silicon: Docker 29, Compose v2, k3s, Linux VMs
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TESIGN TAKE
Few container runtimes put a Current boundaries section, what it cannot do yet, in the README itself.
AT A GLANCE
- LICENSE
- GPL-3.0
- USAGE
- Use freely. Release your source if you redistribute (copyleft).
- LANGUAGE
- Swift
- PLATFORM
- macos · cli
- ACTIVITY
- last commit 2 days ago () · latest release v0.4.5 () · 11 releases
- COMMUNITY
- 1 contributor · 23 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an individual
- SOURCES
- GitHub
- OPEN SOURCE
- YES
- FIRST SEEN
- CATEGORY
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WHY IT MATTERS
It gives standard Docker tools a native Apple Silicon engine without Docker Desktop, adds one-click k3s Kubernetes and Ubuntu, Debian and Kali graphical Linux VMs, and exposes all of it from both a SwiftUI app and a CLI. The README states there is no account, cloud control plane, telemetry or commercial-use tier, and the licence is GPL-3.0. The README describes 0.4.6 as a smaller Docker Core app with Kubernetes, Linux Machines and desktop images as signed optional components (published releases stop at v0.4.5 as of 2026-09-15), and a migration flow imports images, volumes and containers from Docker Desktop, OrbStack, Colima, Rancher Desktop or Podman.
BUILD FROM THIS
- Run coding agents in policy-bound isolated sandbox VMs with a read-only MCP mode, or use `dory machine` to spin up snapshot-able headless Alpine dev VMs for repeatable experiments. Containers reach Ollama on the Mac at `host.dory.internal:11434`.
WHO IT'S FOR
- Mac developers weighing Docker Desktop's licence
- the same Docker 29 API and CLI, under GPL
- Anyone needing local Kubernetes
- one-click k3s with v1.34–v1.36 presets
- Coding-agent operators
- policy-bound isolated sandbox VMs and a read-only MCP mode
START IN 5 MINUTES
# brew install --cask Augani/dory/dory # installs Docker Core; add Kubernetes or Linux Machines from the app
# # open Dory once and wait for the engine to report ready, then
# docker context use dory
# docker run --rm hello-world
# dory doctor --activeCAVEATS
- Licence GPL-3.0. Free (GitHub Sponsors). No account or telemetry.
- Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 14 Sonoma or later only; no Intel build yet (planned). x86_64 Linux ISOs do not boot (FEX/Rosetta translate applications only). 8 GiB of memory recommended for mixed workloads.
- Still 0.4.x: desktop Linux GPU acceleration unqualified, USB passthrough qualified-only, no audio passthrough. Latest published release v0.4.5 as of 2026-09-15. 1,577 stars.
RECEIPT
- FIRST SEEN
- AT SOURCE
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- SOURCES
- GitHub
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| clash-verge-rev/clash-verge-revCARD | ★ 144k | ▲ +182 | GPL-3.0copyleft | — | ||
| kubernetes/kubernetesCARD | ★ 128k | ▲ +212 | Apache-2.0permissive | — | ||
| rustdesk/rustdeskCARD | ★ 123k | ▲ +84 | AGPL-3.0copyleft | — | ||
| louislam/uptime-kumaCARD | ★ 91.3k | ▲ +3 | MITpermissive | — |
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