Is running ./configure strictly necessary in order to set up RT?

Hello all,

We use RT as our main project ticketing system. I am looking to create a containerized version of our current deployment. I am attempting to start from an available container which I will then configure according to our organization’s needs. I notice that the installation instructions and the container both make use of the configure program, to assign values for specific program settings. Since we have a current installation set up more-or-less how we want it, does running ./configure do anything that we can’t more easily get by supplying an RT_SiteConfig.pm file?