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[Velociround]

This seems like exactly the perfect tool I want to use, with everything I need perfectly for use on Vagrant with Parallels and instructions for mounting folders.
Unfortunately, boot2docker has been recently deprecated, and this repository has not been updated in 3 years. The updated version (as of 2017) of boot2docker has not been merged even then.

Are there any alternatives? For example, creating a box from a different base image. I guess that would work fine, I just need it to work with Parallels.

Can I help? If so, how?

Thanks in advance.

P.S.: even if you decide not to support this repository anymore, I still wish to use it in my project because it's the only resource I've found so far for creating the smallest possible Docker/Kubernetes image on Parallels Desktop with shared folders to macOS

[legal90]

Hi @antoniogermano ,
Yes, this box was not updated for a while and de-facto deprecated because there was a simpler alternative:
Docker Machine (https://docs.docker.com/machine/overview/) + Parallels driver for it (https://github.com/Parallels/docker-machine-parallels/).

However, as you correctly noticed, both boot2docker and Docker Machine are deprecated now (July 2020):

• Docker Machine is now in maintenance mode docker/machine#4537
• Add deprecation notice boot2docker/boot2docker#1408

I'm not sure what's the actual alternative for that now, but most likely Docker is encouraging everyone to switch to "Docker for Mac" instead: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/
Although, it has nothing to do with Parallels Desktop, because it uses hyperkit and xhyve - another hypervisor for macOS.