Apple Container Studio

How to use Apple Container Studio

1. Confirm you have an Apple silicon Mac on macOS 26, the only supported setup
2. Install the signed installer package, then run container system start
3. Build a run command by picking an OCI image, command, name, publish and volume
4. Copy the command and paste it into a terminal on your Mac to run it
5. Browse the subcommand groups to plan image, network and volume work

Features

• Built on the real apple container repo, Apache 2.0 licensed, written in Swift
• Command builder produces real container run commands, including the alpine hello first run
• System commands verbatim: system start and stop, update script, uninstall keep and delete
• Full subcommand groups from the command reference: container, image, builder, network, volume
• Honest scope: Linux containers run as lightweight VMs on an Apple silicon Mac, not here

Frequently asked questions