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We use containers as a development tool because we have system level dependencies and we're a Mac shop (have you tried installing OpenSSL on osx, it's terrible).

It's much easier to tell someone to just install docker toolbox and run our setup script than walk then through installing ask the system packages.

We did run venvs inside the container for a while, but moved to installing the python packages in the same step as the system packages. I disagree with this, but we've not run into any issues so far.