Can you use Testcontainers to manage service dependencies, like a database, during local development?

Question

Testcontainers can manage dockerized service dependencies, like a database, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and so on for integration testing.

Can I configure my Spring Boot application to manage these service dependencies during local development?

For example, my Spring Boot application needs a MySQL database. I would like to integrate it with Testcontainers to provide a Docker container with MySQL not only during the tests execution, but at application startup during local development too.