NAME

containermanagerd — Application and plug-in containerization management daemon

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

containermanagerd creates, destroys, and otherwise manages containers for applications and their respective plug-ins and works in concert with sandbox(7) and secinitd(8) to provide application containerization. It is a classic launch daemon and/or agent managed by launchd(8).

Users should not run containermanagerd manually and changing arguments is unsupported.

FILES

• /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.containermanagerd.plist
• /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.containermanagerd.plist
• /usr/libexec/containermanagerd
• ~/Library/ContainerManager
• ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.containermanagerd
• ~/Library/Containers
• ~/Library/Daemon Containers
• ~/Library/GroupContainersAlias
• ~/Library/Group Containers

SEE ALSO

launchd(8), secinitd(8)

HISTORY

containermanagerd was first introduced in macOS 11.