ArcBox Desktop

The native macOS app for ArcBox — containers, Kubernetes, Linux VMs, and agent sandboxes in one window.

!ArcBox

Install

brew install --cask arcbox

Or grab the DMG from Releases. The app ships the arcbox-daemon runtime and the abctl CLI, and keeps itself up to date over Sparkle — there is nothing else to install.

Requires macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later on Apple Silicon.

What it does

One three-column window — sources, list, detail — over everything the daemon runs:

• Docker — containers, images, volumes, networks. Containers group by Compose project, and each one

• Kubernetes — pods and services from the daemon-managed k3s cluster.
• Machines — full Linux VMs: create from a distro image, drive the lifecycle, and attach an

• Sandboxes — disposable microVMs from templates, with ports, snapshots, and an event log.
• Activity — live CPU, memory, and network for the system VM and every running container.

How it fits together

┌─────────────────────┐
│  ArcBox Desktop     │  SwiftUI
└──────────┬──────────┘
           │ gRPC (~/.arcbox/run/arcbox.sock)
           │ Docker Engine API (~/.arcbox/run/docker.sock)
           ▼
┌─────────────────────┐
│  arcbox-daemon      │  Rust — VMM, networking, storage
└──────────┬──────────┘
           │ vsock
           ▼
┌─────────────────────┐
│  Linux guest        │
│  arcbox-agent       │
└─────────────────────┘

The app is SwiftUI end to end — no Combine, no third-party UI frameworks. The daemon is a separate binary from the arcbox repo, pinned by arcbox.version and embedded at build time.

Contributing

Start with CONTRIBUTING.md; the build itself is in docs/development.md. Bug reports and feature requests go to Issues; vulnerabilities go to [email protected] instead, never to a public issue.

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0, at your option.

The ArcBox name, mark, and screenshots are brand assets and are not covered by the source-code license — see BRAND.md.