Testing Crawlers with Glue 3.0 Docker image

So I have an ETL pipeline that read S3 parquet files, transforms and inserts into DynamoDB. I have a crawler defined which reads the parquet and populates a Glue Data Catalog table. The PySpark job then queries the catalog table and populates Dynamo. I would like to test this locally using the aws-glue-libs Docker image. Unfortunately I cannot seem to query a local Data Catalog or interact with crawlers via the Docker container. The Docker image has virtually no documentation outside of a 2 year old blog. Can I develop and test a full Glue workflow via this container or is the purpose just to run a PySpark job? Thanks!

TLDR: Is it possible to use the boto3 Glue API against a local Docker endpoint to perform crawler/catalog operations, or is the Docker image just a glorified PySpark install?