It actually seems like Consul still might be an easier way to go than this. Dnsmasq is sure easy, but consul isn't exactly challenging and is happy to run in it

It actually seems like Consul still might be an easier way to go than this. Dnsmasq is sure easy, but consul isn't exactly challenging and is happy to run in its own container when local dev is a key. Why have a different methodology for local dev and deploy when you could have the SAME methodology for local and deploy with almost no extra cost?