Possible to build a docker file and use it as a container without publishing it. container.dockerFile?

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Is there anyway to build and use a container without intermediate storage outside the runner/job?.

I have a docker file that would be great to run, and if its container.image that is exactly what I want, but it needs to be built first.
Which puts in the awkward situation of publishing to a different registry, for something that lives along as the job needs to, and the complicated moving parts of setting up something to publish and then consume it.

The other option, is taking the base of my docker file, and then recreating all the steps in the dockerfile to end up with an environment that's similar. It works, but it's a bit awkward to have to duplicate my docker file, when I am already running in a container.

This may exist, and I am just not seeing it in the documentation, but a bit confused that container for a job exists, but doesn't seem straightforward to have a docker file for.