We are excited to build Finch in the open with interested collaborators. In particular, Justin Cormack, CTO of Docker shared that “we’re bullish about Finch’s adoption of containerd and BuildKit, and we look forward to AWS working with us on upstream contributions.” We’re also hopeful that with our adoption of these open source components from which Finch is composed, we’ll increase focus and attention on these components, and add more hands to the important work of open source maintenance and stewardship. We are happy to address issues, and are ready to accept pull requests. We have plans for features and innovations, but opening the project this early will lead to a more robust and useful solution for all. Rather than iterating in private and releasing a finished project, we feel open source is most successful when diverse voices come to the party. With Finch, you can create and run containers locally, and build and publish Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images.Īt launch, Finch is a new project in its early days with basic functionality, initially only supporting macOS (on all Mac CPU architectures).

It provides for simple installation of a native macOS client, along with a curated set of de facto standard open source components including Lima, nerdctl, containerd, and BuildKit. Finch is a new command line client for building, running, and publishing Linux containers. Today we are happy to announce a new open source project, Finch.

Open source publisher for mac