Ask HN: What are your IoT Development Best Practices?

We're at the start of an IoT project and are thinking about how to set up the development environment for local development and CI/CD.

With web applications, I'll often use Docker and Docker Compose to "mock" the cloud infrastructure for local development and GitHub Actions for CI/CD to the cloud.

What's the best practice for IoT development? Is a "no hardware" and "no cloud" environment using Docker and Docker Compose for local development recommended?