Orchard

A native Mac app for containers, machines, Kubernetes clusters and local AI models, built on Apple’s container runtime.

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Installation

Requires macOS 26 on Apple silicon.

Orchard updates itself: new releases are offered in the app as they come out.

Containers and images: run, inspect and clean up containers and images, follow their logs and builds, and see live CPU, memory, network and disk usage on the dashboard.
Local AI and sandboxes: wire MLX, Ollama or LM Studio models into containers. Inference stays on the Mac’s GPU, and agents run behind a hypervisor boundary with a local endpoint instead of an API key.
Container machines: create, configure and monitor persistent Linux VMs from any init-capable image, with CPU, memory, home-mount and custom-kernel options.
Kubernetes clusters: local clusters on container’s k8s plugin. Pick the version, workers and CNI, load local images into every node, and get a working kubectl context in one click.
Compose projects: bring a compose.yaml up in dependency order. Stacks started in the terminal show up too, and anything the runtime can’t honour is listed before the first run.
Userspace networking: container traffic leaves the Mac like any app’s, so VPNs, DNS settings and per-app firewalls apply to it. Published ports and host.containers.internal work.
Signing and scanning: push, sign and verify images with Sigstore cosign, gate signing on Trivy vulnerability reports, and see each image’s signature at a glance.

Orchard is based on Orchard by Andrew Waters, MIT licensed.