I was forced into using some kind of Docker thing at my last job, where I looked into the license and it starts out:
"Docker Desktop is free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open source projects."
I think that's reasonable, but it's hard for me to believe everyone's paying when they should be. I set up podman instead and I haven't had any major issues.
There are many decent alternatives for MacOS too. I had good luck with minikube a few years ago. This article seems decent, based on my previous research:
Yeah I'm on a Mac. Uh, you know I really had a memory of homebrew getting things out of the .app or something, but I really can't find any evidence that was ever the case. I blame sleep deprivation, this is like the 13th blunder I've made this week haha.
Docker Desktop is the only thing that has that license. Every time someone mentions docker I have to be annoying and make sure they didn't mean they installed Docker Desktop.
Docker just needs to be open source software, there's no real revenue model that makes sense, but damn they're trying. Now I guess dockerhub is also just off the table.
"Docker Desktop is free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open source projects."
I think that's reasonable, but it's hard for me to believe everyone's paying when they should be. I set up podman instead and I haven't had any major issues.