I do the last thing as well! I essentially use docker compose files as glorified installer scripts. Back in the day I would have installed whatever software co

I do the last thing as well! I essentially use docker compose files as glorified installer scripts. Back in the day I would have installed whatever software comes in the container by hand, then set up a service with systemd / cron or whatever. Nowadays I just set the container to start at systemboot. Works pretty well for me so far and unlike scripts the docker containers so far never failed to just set up and run.