thanks! I was a little bit confused at first because I've always taken docker compose as a tool mainly for spinning up dev environments. But I read mentioned article and it looks perfectly valid for single host deployments.
One thing which bothered me is how i manage container versions usually made with hashes but all you need is to either make sth like a compose template like file which would have a version placeholder or specify production compose configuration on top of the default one.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/71194294 https://docs.docker.com/compose/production/