Observed arrival · 2026-10-25
Kiri, a leaner Docker route for Mac
Kiri is an open-source Mac container runtime written in Rust that aims to work with the Docker CLI, Compose, and the Docker API.
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- Mac developers who use Docker CLI or Compose
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- The reported comparison uses the same Docker CLI and default bridge networking, with p50 results from 30 runs on one Apple Silicon Mac.
Field notes
The page walks through a shell session in which `kiri run` starts a container, `kiri ps` lists it, and `docker ps` sees the same container. Its architecture description names Apple's Virtualization.framework, vsock, and a custom kernel, while the benchmark section links to p99s, the Docker API path, and raw figures. The performance numbers are the project's reported results, measured on one Apple Silicon Mac.
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