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document using locally-installed cookiecutter

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This avoids running Docker in Docker.

See https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/57460cda021bddaf04e7c3351c3881a3f24859b0/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/stages/templater/cookiecutter.ts#L56-L79

See also https://backstage.io/docs/features/techdocs/getting-started#disabling-docker-in-docker-situation-optional where it is configurable.
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_note_ Currently the templaters that we provide are basically Docker action
containers that are run on top of the skeleton folder. This keeps dependencies
to a minimal for running backstage scaffolder, but you don't /have/ to use
Docker. You could create your own templater that spins up an EC2 instance and
Docker. You can `pip install cookiecutter` to run it locally in your backend.
You could create your own templater that spins up an EC2 instance and
downloads the folder and does everything using an AMI if you want. It's entirely
up to you!
up to you!
Now it's up to you to implement the `run` function, and then return a
`TemplaterRunResult` which is `{ resultDir: string }`.