I'm still new to this myself, but yes that's the gist of it. This isn't k8s or even k3s. It's an easy way to deploy a container via code on a single node system using the already present systemd for management. It let's you pretend that Linux handles containers natively like it does daemons.
This article from redhat has more information about the why and what.
The other politicians there have confirmed that it happened.