Apple released container

a tool that you can use to create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac. It’s written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.

After installing and starting the service via container system start the cli gives you a similar experience to docker. Unfortunately in my case after resolving dated sources and switching dependencies to arm64 I discovered my Dockerfile candidate still had an x86 binary so I’ll need to find another candidate to test any performance improvements.