Investigate whether we can put our unit files in a separate location from the standard unit files

[soenkeliebau]

[ohessel]

Multiple sources tell:
systemd units may reside wherever they want they just need to be accessible, and be installed by systemctl.
This will create a symlink at the standard path, but we're tidy :-)

If the service unit file is not located within one of the known systemd file paths, you can provide a file path to the service unit file you wish to enable:

sudo systemctl enable /path/to/myservice.service

However, this file needs to be accessible by systemd at startup. For example, this means files underneath /home or /var are not allowed, unless those directories are located on the root file system.

source: The most comprehensive source (in addition to the unreadable "standard documentation) can be found here:
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/introduction-to-systemctl

[soenkeliebau]

I've created stackabletech/documentation#37 for this.

[soenkeliebau]

I believe the ADR solves this for now.