Apple said a WSL competitor and Kubernetes are on the open source Container project’s roadmap. 

Eric Ernst, an engineering manager at Apple who was previously a Kata Containers technical lead at Intel, discussed the future of containers on Mac at the open source FOSDEM conference in February. 

The open-source project Container – "naming is hard" Ernst said – was announced in June 2025 as a tool to "create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac," according to Apple’s GitHub repo. 

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