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Colima (third-party project)

    “How does Lima relate to Colima?”

    Colima is a third-party project that wraps Lima to provide an alternative user experience for launching containers.

    The key difference is that Colima launches Docker by default, while Lima launches containerd by default.

    ContainerLimaColima
    containerdlimactl startcolima start --runtime=containerd
    Dockerlimactl start template://dockercolima start
    Podmanlimactl start template://podman-
    Kubernetes (k3s)limactl start template://k3scolima start --kubernetes
    Kubernetes (kubeadm)limactl start template://k8s-

    The colima CLI is similar to the limactl CLI, but there are subtle differences:

    ConfigurationLimaColima
    CPUslimactl start --cpus=4colima start --cpu=4
    Reverse SSHFSlimactl start --mount-type=reverse-sshfscolima start --mount-type=sshfs
    Rosettalimactl start --rosettacolima start --vz-rosetta
    Access to VM by IPlimactl start --network=lima:sharedcolima start --network-address