User stories: please share how your organization is adopting Lima

[AkihiroSuda]

We, the maintainers of Lima, are trying to promote Lima from CNCF Sandbox to CNCF Incubating:

• [Incubation] Lima Incubation Application cncf/toc#1348

To help the due diligence process at CNCF, we would like to collect user stories 🙏.

Please post:

• Name of your organization
• Host OS
• Guest OS (distro)
• Application inside the guest OS
• Why you adopted Lima
• Comments

[rfay]

DDEV supports Lima directly, in Rancher Desktop, and as part of Colima.

• DDEV Foundation https://ddev.com, https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/users/install/docker-installation/#macos
• Host OS: macOS (amd64 and arm64)
• Guest OS: Linux
• Application in guest: nginx/php-fpm/etc.
• Why we adopted: Open-source, well-maintained, great solution

Current voluntary telemetry for DDEV shows about 10,000 weekly users. DDEV is the preferred/specified/documented local dev recommendation for TYPO3, Drupal, Craft CMS, and a few other PHP CMSs.

[bloodeagle40234]

• NTT Communications Corporation https://www.ntt.com/en/index.html
• Host OS: macOS (arm64)
• Guest OS (distro): Linux (manily Ubuntu)
• Application inside the guest OS: nginx, nerdctl, lustre all in one (for testing)
• Why you adopted Lima: well-maintained, easy-to-install/use, creating Linux env in my laptop

[deviantintegral]

• Name of your organization: Lullabot
• Host OS: macOS
• Guest OS (distro): Ubuntu (really, whatever the default docker template uses)
• Application inside the guest OS: ddev, but also anything else on Docker.
• Why you adopted Lima: Performance, simplicity, open-source, responsive to end user needs.
• Comments: Our team can choose their development environments. Most use macOS, though some use Linux and we have 1-2 Windows users. Docker Desktop was very buggy for years, and prioritized features we didn't care about instead of core stability and performance. Their difficult licensing changes made Lima and colima a clear winner. While some team members do choose to pay for and use Docker Desktop, most are happy with Lima.

[Shubhranshu153]

• Name of your organization: Finch, Lima is used in Finch (https://runfinch.com/)
• Host OS: MacOS, Windows
• Guest OS (distro): Fedora
• Application inside the guest OS:we began looking at the available open source components for container tooling and were immediately impressed with the progress of Lima, recently included in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a sandbox project. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an-open-source-client-for-container-development/
• Comments: Finch has 40k downloads, 54k views, 12k clones