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There will be a bit of "yak shaving" up front to get it working in the container but I think it's probably worth it over the long run. The main benefit is that you can be sure that the environment you develop in locally will be the same as what is deployed in the wild. As you share your code/application with other developers (which it sounds like you're starting to do) this will become more and more important. Just make sure you're writing your application to be "cloud native" up front (e.g. put your configuration parameters in environment variables)