Right now, it looks like all of the build-time pieces were removed, and the bootstrapping would likely introduce a long startup time, as well as startup resource requirements

The build time segments are delegated to a

bootstrap_start

boot mode, so now, instead of building once at the Docker build level, which can't port to Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, you just deploy the container, and it will detect if it installed, runs the install once, and then switches boot mode to

basic_start

functionality.

I still need a way to run the basic_start from the outset

Technically you could force a boot mode. However, it should detect if there are files in $APP_PATH that will be necessary for container operations.