You should be able to use `systemctl --user link` which is a bit nicer than copying.
link PATH...
Link a unit file that is not in the unit file search path into the unit
file search path. This command expects an absolute path to a unit file.
The effect of this may be undone with disable. The effect of this command
is that a unit file is made available for commands such as start, even
though it is not installed directly in the unit search path. The file
system where the linked unit files are located must be accessible when
systemd is started (e.g. anything underneath /home/ or /var/ is not
allowed, unless those directories are located on the root file system).
The cool thing is you can also create .kube file which points to a kubernetes pod definition yaml. This also generates a service definition which takes care of running a full pod with all your containers.
So really for a developer it would potentially be this simple;
Just to compare with docker-compose again.