# container mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für container in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:container
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install container
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install container
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: devel/container/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#container
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/container/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:container
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.2.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Create and run Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines
- **Homepage:** <https://apple.github.io/container/documentation/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/apple/container>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-29T17:23:24+01:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- container (Alias)
- container-apiserver (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.2.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Apple's `container` is a macOS-focused CLI for creating and running Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines. It is written in Swift, optimized for Apple silicon, and designed around OCI-compatible images and registries.

### Projektgeschichte

Apple published the initial 0.1.0 release in June 2025 and reached 1.0.0 in June 2026. The README describes the project as active development, with stability guarantees limited to patch versions until the 1.0.0 milestone.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Official documentation frames the tool around macOS developers who need Linux containers without a shared Linux VM. The project also became package-manager-relevant quickly because Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix package records appeared around a first-party Apple runtime rather than a Docker Desktop replacement package.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The CLI can start the system service, pull and run OCI images, build images from Dockerfiles, push images to registries, and manage containers, images, registries, builders, and system components. Its technical overview explains that each container runs in its own lightweight VM through Apple's Containerization package and macOS frameworks such as Virtualization, vmnet, XPC, launchd, Keychain services, and unified logging.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, `container` is significant because it makes Apple's native container stack installable and scriptable as a CLI. Its use of OCI images preserves interoperability with existing registries, while its macOS-only virtualization model creates a distinct packaging target from Linux containerd/runc stacks and Docker Desktop-style bundles.

### Zeitleiste

- 2025: 0.1.0 release published.
- 2026: 1.0.0 release published.
- 2026: Documentation states support targets macOS 26 and Apple silicon.

### Related projects

- `container` uses Apple's Containerization Swift package for low-level container, image, and process management. Its technical overview also connects it to OCI image standards and macOS platform frameworks.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/apple/container#readme>
- <https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-overview.md>
- <https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/tutorials/start-here.md>
- <https://github.com/apple/container/releases/tag/0.1.0>
- <https://github.com/apple/container/releases/tag/1.0.0>
- <https://apple.github.io/container/documentation>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** orange / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- formula declares a Homebrew service
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - container: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/container/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - container: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/container/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/container.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/container.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph