2022
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
Akihiro Suda and Jan Dubois presented “Running containerd and k3s on macOS” about Lima.
It has been very hard to use Mac for developing containerized apps. A typical way is to use Docker for Mac, but it is not FLOSS. Another option is to install Docker and/or Kubernetes into VirtualBox, often via minikube, but it doesn’t propagate localhost ports, and VirtualBox also doesn’t support the ARM architecture. This session will show how to run containerd and k3s on macOS, using Lima and Rancher Desktop. Lima wraps QEMU in a simple CLI, with neat features for container users, such as filesystem sharing and automatic localhost port forwarding, as well as DNS and proxy propagation for enterprise networks. Rancher Desktop wraps Lima with k3s integration and GUI.
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CNCF TAG-Runtime Meeting 2022-10-06
Akihiro Suda presented Lima in the CNCF TAG-Runtime Meeting.
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2023
DevOps Toolkit 2023-02-09
Anders Björklund presented Lima in The DevOps Toolkit Series.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
Akihiro Suda presented Lima in the CNCF project pavilion.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023
Akihiro Suda presented Lima in the CNCF project pavilion.
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2024
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
Akihiro Suda presented Lima in the CNCF project pavilion.
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Open Source Summit Europe 2024
Harsh Thakur and Kunal Verma presented a talk “Container Development Client for Reproducible Artifacts”.
The container landscape is undergoing a transformation with innovative snapshotters and image formats. But how do we leverage these advancements to empower developers with more cost-effective solutions? Open source projects like Colima and Finch are paving the way for this new wave of container tooling. While they didn’t fully meet our specific needs, they provided valuable building blocks for our solution. In our pursuit of achieving truly reproducible builds, we explored Nix and Nix-snapshotter. Combining the power of Nix, a robust package manager, with Nix-snapshotter’s efficient caching capabilities within containerd, and the cross-platform functionality of Lima for managing Linux VMs, we’ve unlocked a new level of consistency and reproducibility for developers’ software builds. This project empowers developers with unprecedented flexibility and control over their containerized environments. By embracing these innovations, we can expect reduced CI resource consumption, faster build times, and simplified security and compliance.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024
Akihiro Suda presented Lima in the CNCF project pavilion.
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He also mentioned Lima in the presentation “What’s Going on in the Containerd Neighborhood?” in the context of case study of nerdctl.
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2025
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
Akihiro Suda presented Lima in the CNCF project pavilion.
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EuroBSDCon 2025
Leonardo Taccari presented Lima in the NetBSD devsummit at EuroBSDCon 2025.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
Akihiro Suda presented Lima in the CNCF project pavilion.
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