colima Command Examples

Container runtimes for macOS and Linux with minimal setup. More information: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima.

• Start the daemon in the background:

colima start

• Create a configuration file and use it:

colima start --edit

• Start and setup containerd (install nerdctl to use containerd via nerdctl):

colima start --runtime containerd

• Start with Kubernetes (kubectl is required):

colima start --kubernetes

• Customize CPU count, RAM memory and disk space (in GiB):

colima start --cpu {{number}} --memory {{memory}} --disk {{storage_space}}

• Use Docker via Colima (Docker is required):

colima start

• List containers with their information and status:

colima list

• Show runtime status:

colima status