This is a feature release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to Mac and Windows. The release contains some feature changes along with various bug fixes.
You can read the announcement post on the SUSE Community site.
Highlighted Features
- nerdctl, a mostly docker compatible CLI, is now included with Rancher Desktop. It includes features such as running and building containers. This is the next step in supporting more container features. nerdctl works with containerd, the current runtime. We plan to support more CLIs and runtimes in the future such as the Docker CLI and Moby (the open source project behind the Docker engine).
- Ports exposed by the containers are now accessible on localhost. For example, if you start a container and expose it on port 8000 you can access the container on localhost:8000. Note, on mac the ports are exposed on 0.0.0.0 which means they are accessible on all network connections (including your machines IP).
- Built-in updates. When the next release of Rancher Desktop comes out you will be notified, get to see the changes, and it will be installed. This is an opt-out feature so you can stay on a version of Rancher Desktop if you choose.
- You can now reset just Kubernetes or Kubernetes and Containers. When you reset just Kubernetes any container images you had pulled or built will remain in your environment. To wipe out the containers and images you will need to reset Kubernetes and Containers.
You can connect with the developers via:
- The issue queue
- Rancher Users Slack in the #rancher-desktop channel
Changelog
The full version changelog, from v0.4.1, can be found using GitHub compare.