Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

xxinit about 3 hours ago 10 commentsRead Article on davit.app

Mostly vibe-coded Apple Containers front-end that I'd like to use myself. But if others want to use it, here's the source code.

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simonw•about 1 hour ago

This looks like a really solid app. I like that it's 17 MB and uses the ContainerAPIClient library directly.

28 commits in 3 days, 5,015 lines of Swift, every commit "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5".

Also neat that it's signed/notarized. I installed it and it downloaded the necessary container platform stuff on first launch.

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.

The create image dialog suggests "nginx:latest" but that's not a great starting demo.

ballislife30•23 minutes ago

Docker desktop is a memory hog. What's the memory usage of Davit?

nvahalik•about 1 hour ago

I really want to use this but am stuck (right now) having to use Caddy's docker tags integration for name resolution.

dofm•32 minutes ago

Can you not use Avahi in the guest and get zeroconf?

Oh! Do you mean the issue is adding extra name resolution to a VM?

Have you tried this avahi alias trick?

https://gist.github.com/tomslominski/9d507acd4036952d65b2364...

Works like a charm, bit odd that you have a persistent avahi client process broadcasting per alias, but it's lightweight.

nvahalik•5 minutes ago

Interesting! I will look into this.

mrbnprck•about 1 hour ago

Looks great, does it also come with a menubar integration?

nf-x•44 minutes ago

Looks neat, need to give it a spin

bbg2401•about 1 hour ago

Other recent vibe-coded projects providing similar interfaces:

- https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app

- https://github.com/tofa84/berth

oulipo2•about 1 hour ago

How does it compare to something like OrbStack?

LoganDark•about 1 hour ago

OrbStack has its own virtualization layer designed to simulate Docker. Containerization has different primitives even though it supports the same OCI images