My attempt to switch from Docker Desktop entirely ended in me embracing Especially since nerdctl (its in Rancher Desktop) required some changes to WSL to work well. “Supplying a desktop application for Kubernetes developers has caused Rancher Desktop to have a high degree of feature functionality overlap with Docker Desktop.” “The initial focus of Rancher Desktop and Docker Desktop were different,” wrote Lian. For Kubernetes developers and “some container developers,” Liang wrote in an email, it is “possible to use Rancher Desktop as a replacement for Docker Desktop.” So, first off, (and as pointed out in the Hacker News comments) it is not a drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop, as it does not support Docker Swarm.
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It’s only a matter of time before Rancher Desktop catches up with Docker Desktop, they’ve recently added support for nerdctl as a Docker-compatible CLI that uses containerd, but it doesn’t yet support Windows containers (WIP)Īccording to Sheng Liang, president of engineering and innovation at SUSE, and previously the co-founder and CEO of Rancher before its acquisition, Rancher Desktop was designed primarily as a Kubernetes development environment for the desktop and is centered around Kubernetes. So, the question remains: can Rancher Desktop replace Docker Desktop?
This, by the way, is not the first lifeboat, either, as we already examined the potential of Podman, shortly after the news of Docker Desktop’s new pricing broke.
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Now, my own take is that we all live in a world of internet entitlement these days, where we expect any and all software to be free - something I don’t claim to be exempt from - and that even though Docker made the change to explicitly target companies with more than 250 employees or more than $10 million in annual revenue, we’re all still looking for a lifeboat.
If you haven’t been paying attention to the whole ordeal, you might have the same reaction as at least one Hacker News commenter, who asks “Did the founder of Docker kick a bunch of puppies or something? Is there some reason I’m missing why we should be angry about being asked to pay for something that everyone uses for everything and derives a lot of value from?” Here we are at the end of another week, yet again discussing the idea of replacing Docker Desktop, after SUSE announced the latest version of Rancher Desktop this week and the news made it to the top of Hacker News under the title “Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement.”
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