I used to use Vagrant to spin up minimal virtual machines when I needed to test code on a different distro than what I ran. Lately I've switched to Podman.
Install Podman with your distribution's package manager.
Configure it:
$ sudo --add-subuids 200000-265536 \ --add-subgids 200000-265536 \ $USERCreate a directory to share data between your container and your localhost:
$ mkdir dataRun a container, with your ./data directory mapped to /storage in the container:
$ podman run -it --volume ./data:/storage:Z busybox