If you want to use something minimal on your Mac to run docker (as opposed to the mammoth that is Docker Desktop), I stumbled upon colima.

brew install colima

brew install docker docker-desktop

Symlink Docker to run as a ctrl #

mkdir -p ~/.docker/cli-plugins
ln -sfn $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-compose/bin/docker-compose ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

Start Colima #

colima start --runtime docker

docker ps

Issues with Docker daemon #

export DOCKER_HOST="unix://${HOME}/.colima/default/docker.sock"

If you are using fish instead

set -x DOCKER_HOST unix://$HOME/.colima/default/docker.sock

Running lazydocker

DOCKER_HOST=unix:///Users/yesh/.colima/default/docker.sock lazydocker

Running ctop

DOCKER_HOST=unix:///Users/yesh/.colima/default/docker.sock ctop