Thank you for the valuable feedback! The dev mode is indeed a very good idea - I'll probably spin up another docker-compose example with all the default things set up. Would that make it easier?
Yes definitely. Although you could build a new image based off of the original one, add a bash script that sets it all up for you and overwrite the entrypoint i never like that sollution. It should be something that the software supports out of the box as it plays into one of the strengths of docker, easily spinning up and taking down instances.