# 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.