Docker Alternatives?

Nix is a great option for reproducible dev environments. However, the Nix language is pretty complex, which can make adoption and buy in tough.

One solution that my company is working on is Devbox, which tries to provide the usability of tools like Yarn or Brew with the reproducibility of Nix.

You can check us out at https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox

Taking control of your software supply chain with reproducible (Nix) rather than repeatable (Docker) software.

Nix has some complexity in the same way that lxc containers did, so checkout what's looking to me like Nix's docker equivalent:

https://devenv.sh/

Podman will probably work for 90% of the stuff you want.

I had the impression that was more of a problem with the registry and not the tool.

you can use https://container-registry.com/ to store your images instead of Docker Hub.

Colima (for macs)