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1. If you haven’t already installed Homebrew, do so via https://brew.sh/ .

2. Run brew install colima

3. Run brew install docker

4. Run colima start --edit and customize some of the settings (they will be saved to a config file as the defaults for future colima start runs):

   1. Set disk to 96

   2. Set memory to 8

   3. Set vmType to vz

   4. Set rosetta to true - only if you are on an Apple Silicon Mac

   5. Set mountType to virtiofs

   Create and activate a virtualenv with docker-compose installed (this probably requires the workaround from https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/issues/736 ); this is needed because we haven’t yet switched from “docker-compose” to “docker compose”.

Performance

• make pull - about 4 minutes on a 300 Megabit Verizon Fios connection, 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro

  • Mine (Diana) was 9 minutes on a 2019/2020ish MacBook Pro

• make dev.provision - about 41 minutes on a 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro

  • Over an hour for me

Other Notes

• It has no GUI, just the CLI

• This is practically the only option from this list that can be cleanly installed on macOS CI runners

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