Akari: VMM-based macOS Native Container Runtime

Akari is an experimental OCI runtime aims to run macOS native containers on macOS. This runtime works as a standalone VMM using Virtualization.framework. The goal of this project is to support the OCI runtime specification to easily integrate with existing container ecosystem.

It is still in the early stage of development and not ready for production use.

Requirements

• Apple Silicon (arm64) Mac
• macOS 14.0 or later

Build

cargo build && codesign -f --entitlement runtime.entitlements -s - target/debug/akari
or
make build

License

Akari is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.