I have the same experience. If cross platform loading of environment variables and shell scripting is needed one can use Powershell. Together with Windows Termi

I have the same experience. If cross platform loading of environment variables and shell scripting is needed one can use Powershell. Together with Windows Terminal and tmux for Linux and Mac, you can start every microservice in different panes and tabs. You won't get the full Docker experience where you know for a certainty that your code will run the same way in production, but leave that to ci/cd, perhaps a local kubernetes cluster you can use for production-like testing.