Fair point. It still comes up only a few times in a year. Most of the time I work with code bases that have most dependencies defined in some sort of package fi

Fair point. It still comes up only a few times in a year. Most of the time I work with code bases that have most dependencies defined in some sort of package file (Gemfile, package.json, etc) Updating a postgres version comes to mind as one of the possible differences and that usually only is an issue when working with pg_dump and pg_restore with different versions. Good point nonetheless. I am not sure whether it is worth the work to maintain dev containers and the performance hit you get vs running a database directly for example.