More of a curiosity question than anything else but wondering if anyone has tried spinning up an instance of OpenEMR on Apple’s new Container technology.
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You will more than likely not get an answer to that question because most people that could answer that question may not come to this forum and report back.
After a bit of initial research, I think Apple containers are still pretty new, and don’t have any kind of orchestration. There’s no immediate reason to think that any given container (openemr, mysql, nginx, whatever) couldn’t run on Apple containers, but it’d be a lot of custom scripting to get them to talk to each other.
I’m sure the folks working on Apple containers are aware of this. Every containerization implementation builds an orchestration layer sooner or later.
In your opinion, do you think there would be any value in setting up a repository of tutorials for setting up different solutions (eg OpenEMR) using Apple Containers?
Of course! It’d be trailblazing, and there’s always value in that.
Podman can use native Apple containers now; Podman Desktop Apple Container Extension: List Containers & Images on macOS | Podman Desktop