I'm looking into docker-compose with remote docker-compose yaml files but I'm not sure of how solid is going to be.
Our services are mostly Node.js based services and dockerised already. Production environment is setup on AWS ECS.
ecs-cli compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml --ecs-params ecs-params.yml service up --cluster YOUR_CLUSTER
ecs-cli compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml --ecs-params ecs-params.yml service scale 100 --cluster YOUR_CLUSTER
Not sure if that is what you meant, feel free to get in touch.