Sure, Docker has been ported and officially released for the M1 some time ago and many of your Docker projects even may be running without any changes … but, depending on the setup and scale of the project, the performance on your new, shiny, fast, powerful and expensive MacBook may be horrible – even compared to your older MacBook, which may have an older processor, less RAM etc.! So, why is that and, more importantly, (how) can we fix that?!

Granted, MacBooks and Docker have never been best friends in the past, since the performance was always behind Docker on Linux or even Docker on Windows (now that they have their Linux subsystem), but the current state of Docker on M1 is currently worse than on „older“ MacBooks running on Intel. Since we are mostly using our MacBooks to develop software and we are utilizing Docker a lot for our local development, let’s have a look at the current state of Docker on M1 MacBooks, shall we? Docker on MAC – history and status While most of your daily usage software should run fine on the M1, there are some apps that may give you headaches.

Previous MacBooks were based on Intel / AMD architectures.īut – no light without shadows … of course, that architecture switch is a huge step and so there are some things to consider before jumping on the train. The power and also the low engery consumption is mostly a result of the new „M1“ processor architecture, which is based on the ARM platform. And you will be really happy about its battery endurance, too. No doubt about it, the 2021 Macbook (Pro) with the M1 (Max) processor is a powerful, fast, silent and „cool“ workhorse – and although it has lots of power I don’t think you will hear or feel it cool down very often, as opposed to its predecessors. Docker performance on Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor – status and tips Architecture Switch

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