Docker on Mac Studio used to be a recurring nightmare

I love my Mac Studio. I hated Docker on it for a long time.

Random build failures. Containers chewing 30 GB of RAM. Volume performance going from “fine” to “did my machine freeze?” overnight. Every few weeks something broke after an update, a new project, or just because I dared to run another stack.

This is the setup that finally stopped breaking on my Mac Studio. Not perfect. Just boring. Which is exactly what you want from Docker.

I will walk through the actual errors I hit, the dead ends, and the final config that has been stable for months.