Virtualization

VirtualBox - free desktop virtualization software, only really for x86 / x86_64 based systems, current beta doesn't work on Mac Arm Silicon processors
UTM - easy frontend to use qemu virtualization on Mac Apple M Silicon processors
Vagrant - automates VirtualBox VMs for easy reproduction of local labs with scripted provisioners or calling Puppet or similar (I used this a lot at Cloudera)
MultiPass - see below

MultiPass

Uses hyperkit virtualization on Mac for easy VM management.

brew install --cask multipass

multipass find

multipass launch -n myvm 22.04

multipass list

multipass shell

#multipass stop myvm
multipass delete myvm

multipass purge