Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

(davit.app)

46 points | by xinit 1 hour ago

6 comments

  • simonw 30 minutes 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.

  • nf-x 8 minutes ago
    Looks neat, need to give it a spin
  • nvahalik 20 minutes ago
    I really want to use this but am stuck (right now) having to use Caddy's docker tags integration for name resolution.
  • mrbnprck 21 minutes ago
    Looks great, does it also come with a menubar integration?
  • bbg2401 43 minutes ago
    Other recent vibe-coded projects providing similar interfaces:

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

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

  • oulipo2 28 minutes ago
    How does it compare to something like OrbStack?
    • LoganDark 24 minutes ago
      OrbStack has its own virtualization layer designed to simulate Docker. Containerization has different primitives even though it supports the same OCI images