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I'm defining my service containers via GitLab and I deploy them via tagged and dockerized GitLab Runners.
If something fails, I change the runner tags for a service and it will be deployed on a different machine.
Incl case of a critical failiure, I just need to setup a Debian, install docker, load and run the GL runner image, maybe change some pipelines and rerun the deployment jobs.
Some things aren't documented well, yet. Like VPN config...
Ah yes, my router is able to access GitLab as well and pull the list of static routes etc. from it.
As someone not super familiar working in Git I’d love more details about your documentation for your setup. I have most of my containers organized in compose stacks that make sense (eg all the Arrs are in a single compose with the download client) but actually documenting the structure is … well nonexistent.
The thing is it's not really a "documentation" but just a collection of configs.
I have organized my containers in groups like you did ("arrs", web server, bitwarden, ...) and then made a repository for each group.
Each repository contains at least a compose file and a Gitlab CI file where a aimple pipeline is defined with basically "compose pull" and "compose up". There are alao more complicated repository where I build my own image.
The whole "Git" management is really transparent, because with Gitlab you can edit directly on the platform in a hosted VSCode environment where you can directlY edit your files and when your satisfied you just press commit. I don't do weird stuff with branches, pushing and pulling at all. No need for local copies of the repository.
If you want to fulltext search all your repos, I can recommend a "Sourcegraph" container, but use version 4.4.2 because starting with 4.5.0 they have limited the number of private reositories to 1. But this is something for later, when your infrastructure has grown.