That's why I love Incus. It offers all three so you don't have to choose. OCI app containers, LXC containers and KVM.

Just like KIND runs containerd inside docker, you can also run dockerd inside containerd backed pods.

Start a privileged pod with the dind image, copy or mount your compose.yaml inside and you should be able to docker compose up and down, all without mounting a socket (that won't exist anyway on containerd CRI nodes)

To go even further, kubevirt runs on kind, launch a VM with your compose file passed in via cloud-init.

This looks like OVA, firmware can be bundled inside along with additional disks, networking config, machine type and so on.

So essentially a virtual appliance package

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aapple%20cuda&type=code

The bigger the company the less impressive "senior" is. There are probably three levels of staff above it and then distinguished super fellow territory.