I think podman is a lot easier than docker. You can stop all containers easily (without xargs)

podman stop -a

or you can mount the current directory

podman run -v .:/mnt

or you can mount while you build

podman build -v /dir:/dir

or you can work entirely without root and have the same user on the host also in the container:

podman run --userns=keep-id

(useful when a directory is mounted into container but the application refuses to run as root)