I also configured some productions with docker compose. The biggest problem is to handle the case of machine reboot. Docker restart policy needs to be set to "no". That's also the problem if there would be dependencies between services. Solving that always lead to some type of hacks. I created a bash script that's run with SystemD on machine boot, to start all docker compose services one by one, to avoid them starting all at once (if restart policy would be set to anything except "no"). Other than that, it's awesome. Complexity reduced if high availability is not a critical requirement.