I’ve just been using minikube. I can just build containers with it or mock up a k8s deployment. Instructions to configure local docker or podman to use it are

I’ve just been using minikube. I can just build containers with it or mock up a k8s deployment. Instructions to configure local docker or podman to use it are simple. With the hyperkit backend it’s pretty similar, just with extra bells and whistles and nothing in the taskbar. I keep things pretty simple, so there may be cases it doesn’t cover. If so, then I’d just use a VM. I still use Vagrant a lot for testing non-container stuff. It could be handy there to set up an environment that actually matches your prod setup.