Tutorial: Setting Up and Exploring Apple Containerization on macOS

In a previous post, I introduced Apple Containers and compared it with Docker Desktop for macOS. In this tutorial, we will explore the CLI to run containers using native Apple Containerization technology on macOS 15 Sequoia.

Step 1 – Installing the Container CLI

Download the latest version of the command line interface from https://github.com/apple/container/releases and run the package.

Verify the installation with the command container --version

Once the CLI is installed, start the API server with the command container system start

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