Hello Sander,
nice post! I felt the same when I created the deploy system for my projects with pipelines + deployer php
(like the monkey in the picture) :)

Here an example of my code: https://bitbucket.org/gmdotnet/pipelines-deployer

This is my post where I put all the instrunctions (actually I have to translate in english)

https://www.giuseppemorelli.net/blog/deployer-bibucket-pipelines-automatizzare-deploy-progetto