diff --git a/tests/apps/works/compose.yml b/tests/apps/works/compose.yml
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+---
+
+# The goal of this compose file is to have a testing ground for understanding
+# what cases we need to handle to get stable deployments. For that, we need to
+# work with healthchecks and deploy configurations quite closely. If you run
+# the `make symlink` target then this will be loaded into a "fake" app on your
+# local machine which you can deploy with `abra`.
+
+version: "3.8"
+services:
+  r1_should_work:
+    image: redis:alpine
+    deploy:
+      update_config:
+        failure_action: rollback
+        order: start-first
+      rollback_config:
+        order: start-first
+      restart_policy:
+        max_attempts: 1
+    healthcheck:
+      test: redis-cli ping
+      interval: 2s
+      retries: 3
+      start_period: 1s
+      timeout: 3s
+
+  r2_broken_health_check:
+    image: redis:alpine
+    deploy:
+      update_config:
+        failure_action: rollback
+        order: start-first
+      rollback_config:
+        order: start-first
+      restart_policy:
+        max_attempts: 3
+    healthcheck:
+      test: foobar
+      interval: 2s
+      retries: 3
+      start_period: 1s
+      timeout: 3s
+
+  r3_no_health_check:
+    image: redis:alpine
+    deploy:
+      update_config:
+        failure_action: rollback
+        order: start-first
+      rollback_config:
+        order: start-first
+      restart_policy:
+        max_attempts: 3
+
+  r4_disabled_health_check:
+    image: redis:alpine
+    deploy:
+      update_config:
+        failure_action: rollback
+        order: start-first
+      rollback_config:
+        order: start-first
+      restart_policy:
+        max_attempts: 3
+    healthcheck:
+      disable: true
+
+  r5_should_also_work:
+    image: redis:alpine
+    deploy:
+      update_config:
+        failure_action: rollback
+        order: start-first
+      rollback_config:
+        order: start-first
+      restart_policy:
+        max_attempts: 1
+    healthcheck:
+      test: redis-cli ping
+      interval: 2s
+      retries: 3
+      start_period: 1s
+      timeout: 3s
diff --git a/tests/default/works.env b/tests/default/works.env
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+TYPE=works