Not necessarily. If you're in a microservice architecture, it can be very attractive to "docker run" all the services you're developing against on your development VM.
Relying on Puppet (as with prod) means development VM setup/change time is measured in hours. My company's Puppet catalog takes 15 minutes to compile, 6 hours to run. Entire days of developer productivity are lost trying to get development VMs working. Docker would make that instantaneous. It's also very hard to manage and synchronize data (i.e. test fixtures) across all those services. With Docker you could have a consistent set of data in the actual images and revert to it at will.
Relying on Puppet (as with prod) means development VM setup/change time is measured in hours. My company's Puppet catalog takes 15 minutes to compile, 6 hours to run. Entire days of developer productivity are lost trying to get development VMs working. Docker would make that instantaneous. It's also very hard to manage and synchronize data (i.e. test fixtures) across all those services. With Docker you could have a consistent set of data in the actual images and revert to it at will.