[brujoand]

How exactly are you deploying with docker compose? In my head the only approach would be to somehow sync the docker compose file(s) to a server, have them use the latest tag, and then have something like watchtower regularly check for updates on the images and restart the service.

Is there some well defined way of doing this remotely from say a Gitlab pipeline?

[tpetry]

I am not doing this automatically, and waypoint seems to follow the same manual approach. I just ssh into my tiny vm and change the docker tag within the env and restart everything.

This step is so small it could even be automated but i prefer to control the deployment manually. And every release has a different tag to be able to rollback to an old version, which is not easily doable if you just deploy the latest tag.