[darkwater]

> My container deployments are often done at instance boot time and I don’t make too many changes afterwards. I found myself using docker-compose for the initial deployment and then I didn’t really use it again.

I used a very similar approach in the (now EOL'ed, gonna be replaced by full K8s) infra at $DAYJOB. My main reason to stick with docker-compose is because developers are familiar with it and can then easily patch/modify the thing themselves. Replacing with something systemd will add a dependency over the people that know systemd (which are not usually application developers in your average HTTP API shop)

[GTP]

I would add that this is the use case of a server running some services. But during development you may want to restart and/or rebuild a container multiple times, maybe this is still better done with docker-compose.