You agree that Docker is "so slow" and point to its benefits for preventing differences between dev and prod. But you don't mention what those differences are. What are they?

I also don't see why you'd use a CI pipeline for simple projects where you are typically the only developer. Run tests locally, if everything is fine push to prod.

I use git with a small script to roll out to production. When I execute the script on the server, it stops all services, pulls the latest code from Git, applies Django migrations, and starts everything up again. I use desk [1] to make this as simple as a single `release` command in my local shell.

[1]: https://github.com/jamesob/desk