My current power move in the age of AI: do nothing.<p>I had an idea like this and thought I could vibe code it, but then I figured someone else would care more and do it first. I was right!<p>This looks like a great app and I'm excited to try it out.<p>Free idea: I would like to be able to "jail" an agent inside a VM and send instructions to the harness from outside the VM to agent(s) installed inside. Ideally there is no Codex/Claude/etc. installed on the host.<p>More awesome: let me provision multiple user accounts inside the VM and restrict filesystem / network policy by user. Then I can have a dev agent, QA agent, etc. each with its own view of the work. That would be a powerful base layer for further automation.<p>Of course I should be able to provision various resources "attached" to the VM that agents can use on a permissioned basis; e.g., DB, queue, external volume, and so forth.
This looks like a really solid app. I like that it's 17 MB and uses the ContainerAPIClient library directly.<p>28 commits in 3 days, 5,015 lines of Swift, every commit "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5".<p>Also neat that it's signed/notarized. I installed it and it downloaded the necessary container platform stuff on first launch.<p>Suggestion: add a getting started tutorial to the site which suggests an image to try out and has screenshots (or a silent video) showing you how to get that image up and running and what you can do with it.<p>The create image dialog suggests "nginx:latest" but that's not a great starting demo.
I've been a fan of Orbstack for make 2 years or so. Worth the cost for me because it's so well integrated and fast and docker command compatible.<p>I'll give this a try though.
Really nice. Worked perfectly downloading the runtime and running nginx:latest.<p>It's getting to the point that scrolling down on Github and seeing Claude as a contributor is a signal the app will be good (Native feeling, no Electron, etc)
Unrelated. I noticed that the settings window (Cmd-,) text inputs all type from the right instead of the left like older macOS inputs (or web inputs[0])<p>Is that a thing macOS is moving to? I'm sure I've seen Apple use these too.<p>[0] <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/input/text" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...</a>
contained-app includes a Files feature to allow in-container filesystem browsing. Is there any plan to implement this in Davit as well?<p>Looks like great work, will try it soon!
Kinda interestingly: it zips to 17MB, but the binary looks to be 56MB (davit.app/contents/macos/davit). That seems like a surprising amount of compression for a binary - embedded assets maybe? Possibly this is normal for mac apps though?
Man I wish Apple would add docker api compatibility to Apple containers
This is focused on builds, so running either buildkitd or dockerd in an Apple containerization container.
No port forwarding or host volume stuff (really its focused on running buildkit on mac) BUT complete integration with docker CLI and buildx.<p><a href="https://github.com/cpuguy83/crucible" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cpuguy83/crucible</a>
Very nice - would love to see the ability to open a Dockerfile directly in the UI to build/run it.
Other recent vibe-coded projects providing similar interfaces:<p>- <a href="https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app</a><p>- <a href="https://github.com/tofa84/berth" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tofa84/berth</a>
and <a href="https://github.com/andrew-waters/orchard" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/andrew-waters/orchard</a> but without vibe coding
Hmm… how does one even pick between multiple vibe coded options?<p>I like to vet my options before committing to new software but who knows if the authors are gonna support these in a month? I don’t want to waste Fable tokens to fix bugs myself when they crop up.
Ask fable to explore each project and pick the best one lmao<p>Vibes all the way down
Look at the tests, commit and issue activity, number of committers...
I will give this a try!<p>Docker desktop on mac does not work well (uses lots of resources) and my current alternative is OrbStack (very slick, uses far less resources, but freemium).
Docker desktop is a memory hog. What's the memory usage of Davit?
I really want to use this but am stuck (right now) having to use Caddy's docker tags integration for name resolution.
Can you not use Avahi in the guest and get zeroconf?<p>Oh! Do you mean the issue is adding <i>extra</i> name resolution to a VM?<p>Have you tried this avahi alias trick?<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/tomslominski/9d507acd4036952d65b2364d3750fb36" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/tomslominski/9d507acd4036952d65b2364...</a><p>Works like a charm, bit odd that you have a persistent avahi client process broadcasting per alias, but it's lightweight.
Looks great, does it also come with a menubar integration?
I don't know a lot about containers. Would containers created for/with this also work in Docker?<p>Good name for this app, BTW.
Looks neat, need to give it a spin
Any hosting requirements?
can someone tldr me why choose apple container (and its ui) over docker (and orbstack)
I can’t speak about orbstack, but I’ve worked with docker desktop and podman desktop for years on macOS. Those programs start up a virtual machine that consistently eats ram regardless of whether or not you are running containers in it. Apple container looks lighter weight. In the age of ridiculous ram costs, you gotta save resources.
ooh nice
How does it compare to something like OrbStack?
> Tiny. A single ~17 MB app<p>Oh goodness what have we come to? I know we're comparing to electron monstrosities, but still