Set up buildx with Colima and Docker Engine on MacOS

This guide configures Colima’s Docker context to use Buildx as the default builder

Requirements

• macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon or Intel)
• Colima installed via Homebrew
• Docker CLI
• Docker Buildx

Installation

Open a terminal and install colima and docker using homebrew

brew install colima
brew install docker

Check docker version and verify sure you are using the homebrew binary

docker version
which docker 

brew install docker-buildx

Check wether the CLI plugin is installed.

ls ~/.docker/cli-plugins

Now link the plugin binary and make it the default builder

ln -sfn $(brew --prefix docker-buildx)/bin/docker-buildx ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
docker buildx install