diff --git a/src/local/README.md b/src/local/README.md
index 48060d3ccd..34b646c8d4 100644
--- a/src/local/README.md
+++ b/src/local/README.md
@@ -12,15 +12,20 @@ Downloads all applications needed by `create-containers.sh` from Maven repositor
 Usage: `download-apps.sh [version]`
 * `version` is the dataflow-server version like `2.10.3`. Default is `2.11.3-SNAPSHOT`
 
-## `create-containers.sh`
-Creates all containers and pushes to local docker registry.
+## `launch-dataflow.sh`
+Uses docker compose to launch a database, broker, skipper and dataflow server.
 
-This script requires [jib-cli](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/tree/master/jib-cli)
+## `launch-with-keycloak.sh`
+Uses docker compose to launch a database, broker, skipper and dataflow server and a Keycloak server that loads the `dataflow` realm from `./src/local/data` which define a single user named `joe` with password `password`
 
-Usage: `create-containers.sh [version] [jre-version]`
-* `version` is the dataflow-server version like `2.9.6`. Default is `2.11.3-SNAPSHOT`
-* `jre-version` should be one of 11, 17. Default is 11
+## `stop-dataflow.sh`
+Stops docker-compose and all running Java instances based on the pid files.
 
+## `launch-keycloak.sh`
+Launches standalone Keycloak and loads the dataflow realm from `./src/local/data` which define a single user named `joe` with password `password`
+
+## `tail-container-log.sh`
+Finds a container with provided name and tails the stdout of the container.
 
 ## Testing with Keycloak
 ### Build with Java 17
@@ -39,4 +44,6 @@ Arguments: `--spring.cloud.dataflow.features.streams-enabled=false --spring.clou
 
 ### Run
 
-java -jar spring-cloud-dataflow-server/target/spring-cloud-dataflow-server-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar --spring.cloud.dataflow.features.streams-enabled=false --spring.cloud.dataflow.features.tasks-enabled=true --spring.cloud.dataflow.features.schedules-enabled=false --spring.config.additional-location="src/local/application-dataflow-keycloak.yaml" 
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+```shell
+java -jar spring-cloud-dataflow-server/target/spring-cloud-dataflow-server-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar --spring.cloud.dataflow.features.streams-enabled=false --spring.cloud.dataflow.features.tasks-enabled=true --spring.cloud.dataflow.features.schedules-enabled=false --spring.config.additional-location="src/local/application-dataflow-keycloak.yaml" 
+```
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diff --git a/src/local/application-dataflow-keycloak.yaml b/src/local/application-dataflow-keycloak.yaml
index f207ab5c59..c0e265fbdd 100644
--- a/src/local/application-dataflow-keycloak.yaml
+++ b/src/local/application-dataflow-keycloak.yaml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ spring:
             redirect-uri: '{baseUrl}/login/oauth2/code/{registrationId}'
             client-id: 'dataflow'
             client-name: 'dataflow'
+            # aligns with the realm imported from the data directory
             client-secret: '090RucamvekrMLyGHMr4lkHX9xhAlsqK'
             provider: 'keycloak'
             authorization-grant-type: 'authorization_code'
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ spring:
         opaquetoken:
           introspection-uri: http://localhost:8080/realms/dataflow/protocol/openid-connect/token/introspect
           client-id: 'dataflow'
+          # aligns with the realm imported from the data directory
           client-secret: '090RucamvekrMLyGHMr4lkHX9xhAlsqK'
 
 logging:
diff --git a/src/local/application-skipper-keycloak.yaml b/src/local/application-skipper-keycloak.yaml
index 9d2b936371..93a5f96e54 100644
--- a/src/local/application-skipper-keycloak.yaml
+++ b/src/local/application-skipper-keycloak.yaml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ spring:
             redirect-uri: '{baseUrl}/login/oauth2/code/{registrationId}'
             client-id: 'dataflow'
             client-name: 'dataflow'
+            # aligns with the realm imported from the data directory
             client-secret: '090RucamvekrMLyGHMr4lkHX9xhAlsqK'
             provider: 'keycloak'
             authorization-grant-type: 'authorization_code'
@@ -41,4 +42,5 @@ spring:
         opaquetoken:
           introspection-uri: http://localhost:8080/realms/dataflow/protocol/openid-connect/token/introspect
           client-id: 'dataflow'
+          # aligns with the realm imported from the data directory
           client-secret: '090RucamvekrMLyGHMr4lkHX9xhAlsqK'
diff --git a/src/local/create-containers.sh b/src/local/create-containers.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 79b3d4460a..0000000000
--- a/src/local/create-containers.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-if [ -z "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
-    echo "This script requires Bash. Use: bash $0 $*"
-    exit 0
-fi
-SCDIR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")")
-SCDIR=$(realpath $SCDIR)
-ROOT_DIR=$(realpath $SCDIR/../..)
-
-# set to specific version
-if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
-    TAG=$1
-else
-    TAG=2.11.3-SNAPSHOT
-fi
-if [ "$2" != "" ]; then
-    v=$2
-else
-    v=17
-fi
-PROCESSOR=$(uname -p)
-# export ARCH=arm64v8 for ARM64 image
-if [ "$ARCH" == "" ]; then
-    case $PROCESSOR in
-    "x86_64")
-        ARCH=amd64
-        ;;
-    *)
-        if [[ "$PROCESSOR" == *"arm"* ]]; then
-            ARCH=arm64v8
-        fi
-        ;;
-    esac
-fi
-CRED=
-if [ "$DOCKER_USERNAME" != "" ]; then
-    echo "Using $DOCKER_USERNAME for docker.io"
-    CRED="--from-username=$DOCKER_USERNAME --from-password=$DOCKER_PASSWORD"
-fi
-# set with extra option for buildpacks. BP_OPTIONS=
-IMAGE="$ARCH/eclipse-temurin:$v-jdk-jammy"
-APPS=("spring-cloud-dataflow-server" "spring-cloud-dataflow-composed-task-runner" "spring-cloud-dataflow-single-step-batch-job")
-for app in ${APPS[@]}; do
-    APP_PATH="$ROOT_DIR/$app/target"
-    if [ ! -f "$APP_PATH/$app-$TAG.jar" ]; then
-        echo "Cannot find $APP_PATH/$app-$TAG.jar download using download-apps.sh or build using ./mvnw install"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    jib jar --from=$IMAGE $CRED --target=docker://springcloud/$app:$TAG $APP_PATH/$app-$TAG.jar
-    # docker tag springcloud/$app:$TAG springcloud/$app:$ARCH
-done
-TS_APPS=("spring-cloud-dataflow-tasklauncher-sink-kafka" "spring-cloud-dataflow-tasklauncher-sink-rabbit")
-for app in ${TS_APPS[@]}; do
-    APP_PATH="$ROOT_DIR/spring-cloud-dataflow-tasklauncher/$app/target"
-    if [ ! -f "$APP_PATH/$app-$TAG.jar" ]; then
-        echo "Cannot find $APP_PATH/$app-$TAG.jar download using download-apps.sh or build using ./mvnw install"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    jib jar --from=$IMAGE $CRED --target=docker://springcloud/$app:$TAG $APP_PATH/$app-$TAG.jar
-done
-
-pushd $ROOT_DIR >/dev/null
-docker build -t springcloud/spring-cloud-dataflow-prometheus-local:$TAG src/grafana/prometheus/docker/prometheus-local
-popd >/dev/null
diff --git a/src/local/launch-with-keycloak.sh b/src/local/launch-with-keycloak.sh
index 1abeb22452..2a9a1052b0 100755
--- a/src/local/launch-with-keycloak.sh
+++ b/src/local/launch-with-keycloak.sh
@@ -89,5 +89,4 @@ echo "$!" > dataflow.pid
 echo "Waiting for Data Flow Server"
 wget --retry-connrefused --read-timeout=20 --timeout=15 --tries=10 --continue -q http://localhost:9393
 echo "Data flow running"
-# docker run -v ${SCDIR}/data:/opt/keycloak/data/import -p 8080:8080 -e KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin -e KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin keycloak/keycloak:25.0 start-dev --import-realm --verbose
 fi
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