I've been dreaming of a way of isolating and standardizing installations across Linux and macOS using chroot for a few years. Ideally Windows as well, but I'm not at all familiar with it, although if it's POSIX, it should be possible.
Docker is cool on Linux, but having to virtualize an entire OS everywhere else is just too needlessly slow for situations where you just need to make sure you're running the same stack, not needing to ship the entire machine.
I'm sure you know this, but OS X has chroot, so you could make a mac native chroot container for something by following the general direction the footnote of this article is pointing at. It would only work on macOS, but it would work.
Docker is cool on Linux, but having to virtualize an entire OS everywhere else is just too needlessly slow for situations where you just need to make sure you're running the same stack, not needing to ship the entire machine.