Blogs
Curated blog articles about Lima. Community-contributed additions are collected in the Show and tell discussion category, in particular the Community blogs and write-ups about Lima thread – please add new finds there and the best-known ones will be folded into this page over time.
2021
containerd & Lima: Open source alternative to Docker for Mac
Akihiro Suda on Lima as a free, libre, and open source alternative to Docker for Mac, paired with containerd and nerdctl.
Read the post on nttlabs / Medium.
2022
Lima is now a CNCF project
Akihiro Suda on Lima’s acceptance into CNCF at the Sandbox level.
Read the post on nttlabs / Medium.
2023
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Julia Evans walks through using Lima day-to-day to run Linux VMs on macOS.
Read the post on jvns.ca.
2024
Accelerating Llama on Lima, with WASI-NN RPC
Akihiro Suda on exposing host GPUs to Lima VMs through WASI-NN over gRPC, taking Llama 2 on Apple M2 Pro from 0.66 to 14.73 tokens/s.
Read the post on nttlabs / Medium.
Lima completes fuzzing audit
CNCF blog post covering the third-party fuzzing audit of Lima and its findings.
Read the post on the CNCF blog.
containerd v2.0, nerdctl v2.0, Lima v1.0
Akihiro Suda on the coordinated v2.0 / v2.0 / v1.0 releases of containerd, nerdctl, and Lima.
Read the post on nttlabs / Medium.
2025
containerd v2.1, nerdctl v2.1, and Lima v1.1
Akihiro Suda on the next coordinated release wave across containerd, nerdctl, and Lima.
Read the post on nttlabs / Medium.
Lima becomes a CNCF incubating project
Announcement covering Lima’s promotion from Sandbox to Incubating.
Read the post on the CNCF blog.
Lima v2.0: New features for secure AI workflows
Highlights of the Lima 2.0 release, covering plugin infrastructure (VM driver, CLI, URL-scheme plugins), GPU acceleration via krunkit, Model Context Protocol tooling, and expanded networking.
Read the post on the CNCF blog.
2026
Lima v2.1: macOS guests and enhanced AI agent safety
Highlights of the Lima 2.1 release, covering experimental macOS and FreeBSD guest support, limactl shell --sync for safer AI-agent sandboxing, a smaller guestagent footprint, and the new limactl watch command.
Read the post on the CNCF blog.
More community posts
Additional community write-ups collected so far – add to or comment on the Show and tell discussion to have yours folded in: