There's nothing particularly unique about docker that allows you to achieve this - many of us have been doing this for over a decade with a plain ol' VM. Which

There's nothing particularly unique about docker that allows you to achieve this - many of us have been doing this for over a decade with a plain ol' VM. Which docker is using anyways if you're on windows or mac. I've found that given the many docker specific issues I've ran into in development, the "matches your production" argument doesn't always bear completely true unless you're also using containers in production.