I created container-shell with a similar goal in mind. It’s super light weight, but does not yet support a package manager. It simply gives you a shell using a

I created container-shell with a similar goal in mind. It’s super light weight, but does not yet support a package manager. It simply gives you a shell using a specified docker image inside the current directory, isolating both software installs as well as the rest of your filesystem https://github.com/jrz/container-shell https://github.com/jrz/container-shell