Dockerfiles for development environment

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A nice feature that could be implemented in this project would be to use Docker containers to create reliable environments for testing. This could be a dev container or a BDD container that can be created on the fly to test code quickly and correctly.

[CookieComputing]

Are there big reasons for why we should use a Dockerfile? It might be worthwhile to investigate strong reasons as to why we would want to use a Dockerfile for testing/dev purposes, seeing as the goal of mingus is to attempt to support multiple platforms.