So I've had a question running around my brain for a while.

Has anyone tried using docker-compose files to deploy direct to separate cloud machines?

By which I mean, given some config with user creds to AWS or Digital Ocean or Hetzner or whatever, running:

    dockerless-compose some.address.com up

could spin up servers (ec2 instances, droplets, maybe some kind of hinting in the docker-compose.yml file to show sizes), maybe set up a virtual network if the hosting provider supports it, set network aliases in the /etc/hosts, set some.address.com to be the gatekeeper (the system would need to install SSH on your boxes, but it means that it could set up an ssh authorized key from the gatekeeper box)

And then, maybe it doesn't need to be actual cloud servers. It could be bare metal. It could be chroots. It could even be a single host with docker (a bit pointless, but maybe useful for proving parity with docker-compose)

Essentially, suddenly we have a replacement for the likes of terraform in many organisations. Your local developer setup becomes exactly the same as your production setup.

Am I missing something? Is that where we're headed with this, or would this be a complete nightmare?