@WestCoastDaz I’m relatively new to the platform as well - so I’m afraid I can’t answer your questions, directly - but only give a +1 on the thread, as I had a similar experience in trying to start up the Octobalena device, on an RPi4, and had similar results (container continuously re-starting, as seen from the OS logs in the console - and unable to connect (to the container) via SSH.
It turns out, in my case (documented in this thread) the problem pertained to an underlying problem which was causing an incorrect build. This reminds me that I need to get back to that effort so that I can have a ‘development’ OctoPrint device (#ScratchMonkey) for some planned activities, without disrupting the ‘production’ one currently driving my printer.
Sorry I’m not more help, but I’ll watch this thread to see what I can learn!