This article seems to be focusing on using Docker on production servers, rather than as a Developer tool, which is where Docker the company are focused now. As

This article seems to be focusing on using Docker on production servers, rather than as a Developer tool, which is where Docker the company are focused now. As a developer tool I'm not aware of another option which has a similar setup. You can , of course, manually spin up VMs and install kind/minikube/k3s on them, but that may be more work than you want.