After a positive reception by the HN community five months ago [1, 2], this small project has reached a 1.0 milestone with:<p>* Encrypted instance import/export using age file encryption<p>* Secure credential configurations<p>* Instance autostart<p>* Multiple quality-of-life improvements, including instance tagging<p>The goal of this project is to enable MacOS users to:<p>* Easily spin up and manage lightweight Alpine Linux
environments.<p>* Use tiny VMs to take advantage of containerisation technologies, including LXD and Docker.<p>* Build and test software on x86_64 and aarch64 systems.<p>---
References<p>1. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762657" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762657</a><p>2. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769274" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769274</a>