Migrate to something more modern for project management

[m-rph]

We will migrate the project to something more modern for project management.

The goal is to:

1. Rely more on native tools and configuration over scripts
2. Reduce reliance on OS / distro vendors to provide a docker image with a particular python version.
3. Simplify management of docker images
4. Simplify project bootstrapping

Tasks:

• [ ] #148
• [ ] #149
• [ ] #150
• [x] #147
• [x] #153