I use Ansible to deploy a bunch of containers with intradependencies (shared volumes, networks and settings). One of the containers is homemade with the source pulled from codeberg. Variables are kept in a separate file and passwords in an encrypted one and the whole thing is in a private repo. It is quite flexible.
When I started out converting from compose, I literally asked Copilot for "this, but in Ansible", which got me pretty far.
#17 actually ties up a lot of lose ends.