I Built a CLI That Writes Its Own Docker Config — Then Taught It to Say No

Every time I set up a stack from scratch I'd end up touching at least four files: docker-compose.yml, nginx.conf, a .env file, maybe a Makefile. Change the port in one place and forget to update the others and something silently breaks. I wanted to fix that. Stage 4A was the fix. Stage 4B was the moment I realised the fix was incomplete. This post covers the whole journey: how I built swiftdeploy, why I wired in Prometheus metrics and an OPA policy sidecar, and what actually happened when I del...