Introduction
Rancher Desktop is an app that provides container management and Kubernetes on the desktop. It is available for Mac (both on Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux.
The above image shows Kubernetes settings on Mac on the left and Windows on the right.
Container Management​
Rancher Desktop provides the ability to build, push, and pull container images along with the ability to run containers. This is provided by either the Docker CLI (when you choose Moby/dockerd as you engine) or nerdctl (when you choose containerd as your engine). nerdctl is a "Docker-compatible CLI for containerd" provided by the containerd project.