For MacOS, Macpine has a similar premise: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine

With a view to use lightweight Linux VMs (alpine) to:

* Easily spin up and manage lightweight Alpine Linux environments.

* Use tiny VMs to take advantage of containerisation technologies, including Incus, LXD and Docker.

* Build and test software on x86_64 and aarch64 systems.