I unironically solved this problem by running docker-compose in Docker. You can build an image that's just the official docker/compose image with your docker-co

I unironically solved this problem by running docker-compose in Docker. You can build an image that's just the official docker/compose image with your docker-compose.yml on top, mount /var/run/docker.sock into it, and then when you start the docker-compose container, it starts all your dependencies. If you run Watchtower as well, everything auto-updates. Instead of deploying changes as git commits, you deploy them as container image updates. I'm not going to call it a good solution, exactly, but it meant I could just use one kind of thing to solve my problem, which is a real treat if you've spent much time in the dockerverse.