so all containers started, what is happening is an infinite loop of them waiting for the Postgres instance which in turn is loop failing to mount the directory.
chown: /var/lib/postgresql/data: Permission denied
anyhow, I forbade myself from rabbit hole diving this year but failed.
there is an underlying incompatibility with colima/lima running the docker daemon and macOS not resolved.
essentially my current setup meant this was doomed to fail before I started.