[HN Gopher] Finch: An open-source client for container development
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       Finch: An open-source client for container development
        
       Author : sylens
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2022-11-25 19:16 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | c7DJTLrn wrote:
       | Anybody know what the difference is between this and Lima? It
       | already offers a Docker VM template that with nerdctl is a drop-
       | in replacement for Docker Desktop. There's also Colima which
       | again seems to be the same as Lima which it's based on.
        
         | chucky_z wrote:
         | Looks like this is for a consistent workflow for developers
         | where managing a VM or learning nerdctl is too much. I say this
         | as truthful and neither sarcastically or maliciously.
        
         | mdaniel wrote:
         | Offhand, the biggest difference I'm aware of is the "--
         | platform" argument to "finch run"; with colima (and presumably
         | lima under it) one must specify that at vm creation time not
         | _per container_                   $ ./_output/bin/finch run
         | --platform amd64 --entrypoint=/usr/bin/env redis:7-alpine uname
         | -m         x86_64         $ ./_output/bin/finch run --platform
         | arm64 --entrypoint=/usr/bin/env redis:7-alpine uname -m
         | aarch64         $ uname -m         x86_64         $
         | ./_output/bin/finch images         REPOSITORY            TAG
         | IMAGE ID        CREATED           PLATFORM          SIZE
         | BLOB SIZE         redis                 7-alpine
         | 2700d5097763    31 seconds ago    linux/amd64       30.8 MiB
         | 11.3 MiB         redis                 7-alpine    2700d5097763
         | 31 seconds ago    linux/arm64/v8    30.5 MiB    11.3 MiB
        
         | woleium wrote:
         | The cynical response would be that they all contribute to a
         | different person's promotion document (promodoc in Amazon
         | parlance)
        
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