I use minikube for local k8s dev but you could also use it as basically a local Linux VM for running docker. It is (slightly) less ergonomic than Docker for Mac

I use minikube for local k8s dev but you could also use it as basically a local Linux VM for running docker. It is (slightly) less ergonomic than Docker for Mac but not my much. For the most part I use the qinikube VM for everything docker related since it's annoying to run both a VM for Docker Desktop and for qinikube.