We replicated the behavior (somewhat) of the article, using podman, as a way to allow devs to SSH into a container that was identical to the CI/CD environment.
It also mapped in their NFS home drive, so they could quickly SSH into the container to try a build, to see if it was their dev machine, or a real issue.
It did allow them to choose their container though.
https://github.com/SEL4PROJ/imagesh/tree/master