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apple/container

A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.

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How fast apple/container is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Aug 29 – Oct 28, 2026

Stars +1,460 in 61 days

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Forks +161 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 66 in 61 days

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Trendshift Trendingwhere the repository ranked each day it made the top 25

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
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Sat, Aug 29, 2026+14+30Not trending
Sun, Aug 30, 2026+26+121Not trending
Mon, Aug 31, 2026+23+111Not trending
Tue, Sep 1, 2026+31+01#21
Wed, Sep 2, 2026+29+32#24
Thu, Sep 3, 2026+17+20Not trending
Fri, Sep 4, 2026+18+31Not trending
Sat, Sep 5, 2026+61+30#4
Sun, Sep 6, 2026+20+10Not trending
Mon, Sep 7, 2026+27+10Not trending
Tue, Sep 8, 2026+28+05#25
Wed, Sep 9, 2026+29+61Not trending
Thu, Sep 10, 2026+31+40Not trending
Fri, Sep 11, 2026+23+54Not trending
Sat, Sep 12, 2026+18+30Not trending
Sun, Sep 13, 2026+4+20Not trending
Mon, Sep 14, 2026+27+10Not trending
Tue, Sep 15, 2026+46+21#21
Wed, Sep 16, 2026+40+30Not trending
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+30+10Not trending
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+20+21Not trending
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+21+10Not trending
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+13+00Not trending
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+19+22Not trending
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+18+22Not trending
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+23+50Not trending
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+17+31Not trending
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+15+31Not trending
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+32+00#17
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+104+20#5
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+50+54#14
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+37+22Not trending
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+29+33Not trending
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+18+10Not trending
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+20+32Not trending
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+15+00Not trending
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Mon, Oct 5, 2026+12+52Not trending
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+17+03Not trending
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+25+31Not trending
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+30+12Not trending
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+13+81Not trending
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+18+20Not trending
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+15+40Not trending
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+6+22Not trending
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+23+43Not trending
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+20+22Not trending
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+28+13Not trending
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+16+12Not trending
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+37+21#15
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+32+20#22
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+18+51Not trending
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+2+30Not trending
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+16+31Not trending
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+14+03Not trending
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+11+21Not trending
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+23+21Not trending
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+16+50Not trending
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+20+00Not trending
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+20+22Not trending
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+14+00Not trending
Total+1,460+16166
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    • GitHub trending history

    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

    Jun 10 – Jun 25, 2026#1 on 1 day

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    Where people are talking about apple/container, and every badge it has earned
    1. Sep 291 post

      • 📡 GITHUB RADAR | 2026/09/29 ⭐ microsoft/markitdown Python utility that converts PDF, Office, images and audio into clean Markdown. Helps anyone feeding documents into LLM pipelines without format…

        Read full on X, posted by @FrontieraTechIT

        @FrontieraTechIT · x.com

    2. 2 months earlier
    3. Aug 61 post

      • 可以用 Apple Container 建立簡單的 Kubernetes cluster 了，已 merge 進 main 但尚未 release，觀察看看

        Read full on X, posted by @honglong0420

        @honglong0420 · x.com

    4. 29 days earlier
    5. Jul 81 post

      • I made a small tool that runs Claude Code (or any other agent) in a sandbox that only sees my Xcode project, but still builds on my Mac

        Read full on Reddit

        r/iOSProgramming

    6. Jul 61 post

      • OpenComputer | An Open Source Computer Built For Agents.

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        r/LocalLLaMA

    7. Jul 51 post2 posts

      • Apple spent nearly two decades telling developers to use Docker. Then it quietly built its own. At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled "container", an open source command-line tool that lets developers run…

        Read full on X, posted by @Techjunkie_Aman

        @Techjunkie_Aman · x.com

      • berth - A native macOS app for managing Linux containers with apple/container.

        Read full on Reddit

        r/SideProject

    8. Jul 33 posts

      • Linux has officially won

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        r/u_T_Walker075

      • Linux has officially won

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        r/softwaredevelopment

      • Linux has officially won

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        r/programming

    9. Jul 21 post

      • 🍎 container ⭐ 45,759 stars **"Conteneurs Linux légers sur Mac avec Swift et Apple Silicon !"** #GitHub

        Read full on X, posted by @clxymox

        @clxymox · x.com

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