For my purposes, I wrote a makefile which starts up a container with ssh, then provisions it with ansible (as you would with any normal remote host). This mean

For my purposes, I wrote a makefile which starts up a container with ssh, then provisions it with ansible (as you would with any normal remote host). This meant a) I could reuse existing scripts to provision normal server b) docker could be used to test the ansible scripts were actually capturing everything required. The cache point was a bit of a pain though, I confess.