There's always minikube/k3s, but I think the article overblows the death of Docker a bit. Docker no longer being required in k8s is going to hurt its potential in "prod" for sure, but the `docker run` style commands for running a db locally will work for a long long time.

This article seems to be focusing on using Docker on production servers, rather than as a Developer tool, which is where Docker the company are focused now.

As a developer tool I'm not aware of another option which has a similar setup. You can , of course, manually spin up VMs and install kind/minikube/k3s on them, but that may be more work than you want.

HashiCorp's Nomad is decent, but I don't think Docker competes with k8s at this point.