Discourse development installation non-vagrant

Relatively new to discourse and docker. I have a home lab and would just assume stand up a development server in ESXi than on my local machine. I really just want this set up to play around with plugins. Can I make changes within the docker directories on a full install (like this one https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md) and will those change persist if/when I rebuild the app? Thanks for any help.

Docker is for production.

For development you use:

Both links are on the project Readme…

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Yep, I have since posting this found that guide. Just what was needed, thanks!