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AFAIK macOS doesn't have namespaces/jails/zones so it would be near-impossible to build native Docker for macOS.



How useful would Mac-native docker be? You couldn't run any of your Linux containers and I cannot see much utility in macOS containers.


Plenty of people develop on macOS and deploy on Linux (this isn't completely reliable but people consider it good enough for Ruby/Python/Node.js) so I could imagine a portable Dockerfile that generates either a macOS image or a Linux image depending where it is built. This would speed development dramatically.


But isn't the whole point of Docker having a 100.0000000% repeatable environment? And how would that portable Dockerfile would look?




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