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​Continuous Deployment of Docker Compose Applications Using GitHub Actions​

Published on April 23, 2025 in

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Intro

Over the past year or so we’ve built out a decent-sized test lab environment for Akka.NET and I’ve also personally started a small homelab environment for creating some useful services for my family’s use. Both of these networks use the same components:

  • Tailscale for secure networking and ssh access;
  • docker compose for running infrastructure services such as databases or observability tools; and
  • In our corporate environment we use Kubernetes for running our application workloads; typically, we use GitHub Actions and a self-hosted Docker registry inside our VPN for continuously deploying these.

However, I ran into the same issue with my homelab and my corporate network this week: I needed to be able to continuously deploy a docker compose application onto just one of my machines. For our work use-case; it’s because we’re conducting a pretty big beefy load test and I need control over which node is going to be hosting the “victim” process that’s going to get blasted by everyone else1.

In this article I’m going to show, briefly, how to use GitHub Actions and Tailscale to continuously deploy docker compose applications.

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Aaronontheweb

.NET, Open Source, Startups, and Outer Space

I write about .NET, open source software, the Microsoft ecosystem, my adventures with startups, and outer space.

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