Deployment planner

Start with the operating shape, not the Compose file.

Set the workload, host boundary, public surface, and recovery priority. The blueprint turns them into a focused set of deployment checks before configuration details multiply.

Deployment blueprint

Define the operating shape before writing the stack.

Choose a maintained workload baseline, where it will run, what reaches the public internet, and how much state must survive an incident.

The values below are editable planning baselines. Change the few inputs you know; open Advanced assumptions only when they change your decision.

Initial host band——
Public surface

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State to preserve

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Recovery coverage

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Planning brief

Turn the blueprint into verifiable deployment work.

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Next decision

Check Compose configurationMap persistent state

Plan tools

Keep this useful version close, shareable, and easy to revisit.

Reset inputs

Optional support

Keep practical planning tools available.

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What it models

A maintained workload baseline, first host capacity band, state categories, public exposure, and recovery coverage.

What follows

Use the blueprint to select a host, define secrets and volumes, then validate the rendered Compose configuration before deployment.

Compose preflight

The next step carries this exact access, state, and recovery boundary into the Compose checker for a contextual launch checklist.

Editorial record

Maintained by Make Your Own Tools to turn “Validate a deployment” into a defined host, state, exposure, and recovery boundary. The references below provide the technical context for this planning path. Its calculation rules and planning assumptions are documented in the methodology, and affected calculations pass regression checks before the review date advances.

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Planning scope
Single-host Docker Compose planning for the maintained WordPress, Nextcloud, and Gitea workload baselines.
Next check
Application-specific image settings, provider availability, exact operating cost, migration execution, or the final upstream configuration required by a particular app version.
Docker Compose production guidanceProduction-specific Compose configuration, restarts, ports, logging, and deployment changes.Open source ↗Docker Compose secrets guidanceExplicit secret access and file-backed secret patterns for Compose services.Open source ↗Docker Compose environment-variable guidanceEnvironment configuration and the distinction between variables and sensitive values.Open source ↗Docker Compose quickstartNamed volumes, environment configuration, and validating rendered Compose configuration.Open source ↗Docker Compose volumes reference sourceMaintainer documentation source for service volume grants and a named-volume backup-access example.Open source ↗