Docker on macos

[jt-nti]

TIL DevPod is unmaintained so I've been trying out Devsy, thank you. I use Rancher Desktop on a mac, and I have docker on my path, but Devsy still complained that it couldn't find docker Desktop. I think it's checking here?

devsy/cmd/internal/agentworkspace/up.go

Line 454 in 6c58378

var darwinDockerPaths = []string{

Rancher Desktop puts a docker symlink in $HOME/.rd/bin/docker and everything seems to work ok when I update the Docker provider with that path. Is there a reason Devsy doesn't look for docker on my path and if so, would you be open to adding the Rancher Desktop location to darwinDockerPaths?

[skevetter]

Rancher desktop is supported as of the latest release. Thank you for raising this issue.

[jt-nti]

Amazing, thank you for adding Rancher Desktop support so fast!

I think I must be doing something wrong but if I create a docker provider with the new version, I still get an error trying to use it with a new workspace...

2026-09-19T10:23:28.277Z	INFO	{"level":"error","ts":"2026-09-19T11:23:28.130+0100","msg":"devcontainer up: docker is not installed or not on PATH: exec: \"docker\": executable file not found in $PATH"}
2026-09-19T10:23:28.778Z	INFO	{"level":"error","ts":"2026-09-19T11:23:28.496+0100","msg":"start workspace: docker is not installed or not on PATH: exec: \"docker\": executable file not found in $PATH","cliError":{"code":"UNKNOWN","message":"start workspace: docker is not installed or not on PATH: exec: \"docker\": executable file not found in $PATH"}}
2026-09-19T10:23:28.779Z	INFO	{"kind":"error","outcome":"error","message":"start workspace: docker is not installed or not on PATH: exec: \"docker\": executable file not found in $PATH"}

From a quick look at the changes in the new version, I was expecting it to look in $HOME/.rd/bin without me having to do anything. I tried uninstalling/deleting everything and starting again but still no luck.

devsy --version
v1.19.0

The good news is that the commands in the new Rancher Desktop doc section worked, which is great.

devsy provider set docker -o DOCKER_PATH="$HOME/.rd/bin/docker"
devsy provider set docker -o DOCKER_CONTEXT=rancher-desktop

Thanks again.

[skevetter]

Do you have any other container software installed? Docker desktop? Podman?

What is the details of your host OS?

[jt-nti]

No docker desktop or podman. The host is macos 26.6.2.

[jt-nti]

I do have https://github.com/apple/container installed though.