I can’t really imagine going back to scripting servers remotely to boot up without docker. It sucked. And if you’ve got docker you want something like ECS, cause why manage your own servers? It’s a bit rough to learn but man life sucked before PaaS. You had to build your own. Now I write a simple install script for docker on my machine, edit a menu and as many servers as I want run that app.
Otherwise I dig.