Kali Linux & Containerization (Apple's Container)
If you’re an Apple user, you may have heard of Apple’s upcoming feature Containerization during WWDC 2025. Quick summary:
It is similar to Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL), where a very small lightweight virtual machine (VM) is launched in the background, so a Linux kernel can be used on a non Linux host (WSL2 uses Hyper-V). Not to be confused with WSL1, which was more like WINE!
Its set to be publicly released for the next major OS release, macOS “Tahoe” 26, and also for macOS “Sequoia” 15 .
Containerization supports containers which are “Open Container Initiative (OCI) compliant”, luckily our Kali image are!
Otherwise, we can manually grab the (signed) setup file from github.com/apple/container. At the time of writing its container-0.2.0-installer-signed.pkg.
The first time running, container will need to pull down the container image. The default container registry is currently DockerHub (which Kali is on).
