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+title: Docker on Apple Silicon
+date: 2025-05-12
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+# Docker on Apple Silicon - without longrunning background processes and without Rosetta
+
+Docker itself comes with some background processes. Fine for servers, which only exists to run the containers all the time, disadvantageous for a laptop where you run a container only now and then. ChatGPT proposed `podman` and `finch` and as I already heard and read about `podman` I tried it first.
+
+## `podman`
+
+```
+brew install podman
+```
+
+Afterwards,
+
+```
+podman machine init
+podman machine start
+```
+
+is required to start a VM to run containers within. However,, while the init command directly worked, when issueing the start command I was demanded to install Rosetta. I don't want.
+
+So
+
+```
+podman machine rm
+brew uninstall podman
+```
+
+
+## `finch`
+
+This is a open source product of AWS: [https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an-open-source-client-for-container-development/](https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an-open-source-client-for-container-development/).
+
+```
+brew install finch
+```
+
+Here also
+
+```
+finch vm init
+finch vm stop
+```
+
+is required and afterwards containers can be executed:
+
+```
+finch run -it ubuntu bash
+```
+
+It appears, that the commandline interface of `finch` it compatible with the one of `docker`, at least I haven't found any flaws yet. Since, I usually have full docker commandline in my notes I created an alias:
+
+```
+alias docker="echo -e '\033[1;31m>>> REMEMBER: docker is finch here <<<\033[0m' && finch"
+```
+
+Using this alias (I've it in my `.bashrc`) I can call `docker` and `finch` is executed, with a big reminder that it actually is `finch`.
+
+As soon as I don't need to run containers anymore, I can call
+
+```
+finch vm stop
+```
+
+and no process remains running. Fine.
+
+
+
+
+