ci: include application stack inside repository and fix deployment path

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ deploy_application:
   stage: deploy
   image: docker:24.0.7-cli
   script:
-    # FIXED: Added the missing hyphen below to make it a proper list item
     - docker pull nginxdemos/hello:plain-text
-    # Deploy the stack directly onto the host using the shared docker.sock
+    # FIXED: Now pointing to the local path inside the repository root
-    - docker compose -f ../../stacks/applications/hello-world/docker-compose.yml up -d
+    - docker compose -f ./stacks/hello-world/docker-compose.yml up -d

stacks/hello-world/docker-compose.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+version: '3.8'
+
+services:
+  web-test:
+    image: nginxdemos/hello:plain-text
+    container_name: hello_world_app
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - "127.0.0.1:8080:80" # Exposed only to localhost for Nginx reverse proxy
+    logging:
+      driver: "json-file"
+      options:
+        max-size: "10m"
+        max-file: "3"