TL;DR
A container tool for macOS created by Apple that runs Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines and manages OCI images.
Key features
Pull and run OCI-compatible container images
Support for building images and pushing to registries
Lightweight virtual machine execution optimized for Apple Silicon
Written in Swift, using the Containerization package
Supported on macOS 26 and later
When to use it
When you need to run Linux containers natively on macOS
When developing and testing containers on Apple Silicon Macs
When you need a container workflow using OCI standard images