Nowadays, it is no longer necessary to demonstrate the benefits of containers for service production, and in this presentation, I will show other benefits that containers can bring to the development of software. I will start with a brief introduction, explain the mechanism behind the technology, and I will then present a couple of real-world use cases. I will show how development containers helped me to address these cases and at the end of the presentation, you will know enough about this technique to apply it to your projects and improve your productivity.