

It’s important to note that Colima from v0.3.0 upwards can run alongside Docker Desktop. To follow along with this article, you should have: This article will teach you how to run minikube on an Apple M1 chip without Docker Desktop using Colima. And oh, did I see so many! But though they were alternatives, most didn’t work seamlessly on the M1 chip until I found Colima. I then started searching for an alternative to Docker Desktop. I spent hours trying to resolve it, combed through GitHub issues and stackoverflow, and even downloaded older versions of Docker Desktop but to no avail. Weeks ago, while using Docker Desktop, it suddenly got stuck in a start-stop loop.

Docker Desktop failed me, and at the time (13th July 2022) of writing this article, Hyperkit, VirtualBox, and other hypervisors specified here don’t work on the Apple M1 chip.
