I tend to favor tools that have been around for a long time

… I tend to favor tools that have been around for a long time. A lot of the sites I have built have deployment scripts written in bash with dependencies on apt packages and repos, git to pull application code, and rsync to copy over files. It would probably be okay to update to zsh at this point. ;) I'm constantly shocked by the complexity of deployment infrastructures when I get into new projects: I've spent plenty of time working with Docker and Kubernetes and I have yet to see a case where these simplified things. As a rule, I don't throw out existing infrastructure, but if I'm doing greenfield development I never introduce containers--they simply don't do anything that can't be done more explicitly in a few lines of Bash. One of the sites I still maintain has been running for 15 years. I ported it from Fedora (not my choice) to Debian about 8 years ago, and the only thing that changed in the deployment scripts was the package manager. I switched to DigitalOcean 5 years ago and the deployment script didn't change, period. The deployment script is 81 lines of bash. …