diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e6f1077..8fd25d2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ venv
 build/*
 dist/*
 logs/*
+configs/integrationtest-datacenter/*
 .python-version
 .mypy_cache
 __pycache__/
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 6fdc94f..f278bb8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ Simply run the following to spin the above up and drop yourself into your contai
 
 _Note_: the DC and DB for the above environment are [here](https://github.com/Autodesk/pgbelt/blob/main/tests/integration/conftest.py#L20-L21).
 
+Note: your local code will be _mounted_ to your container instead of copied. This allows you to edit your code on your laptop, then go into the container and run `pip3 install -e .` to update your container's `belt` binary for quick testing iterations.
+
 Once you are done, you can exit out of the above container. Then, for cleanliness, please run the following to clean up `docker` and `docker-compose`:
 
     make clean-docker
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 6845e81..531d90a 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ services:
       TEST_PG_DST_PORT: 5432
       TEST_PG_DST_ROOT_USERNAME: postgres
       TEST_PG_DST_ROOT_PASSWORD: postgres
-    command: bash -c "poetry run python3 tests/integration/conftest.py && pip3 install -e . && bash"
+    command: bash -c "cd /pgbelt-volume/ && poetry run python3 tests/integration/conftest.py && pip3 install -e . && bash"
     depends_on:
       db-src:
         condition: service_healthy
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ services:
         condition: service_healthy
     networks:
       - datacenter
+    volumes:
+      - ./:/pgbelt-volume/:rw
 
 networks:
   datacenter: