[neeksHN]

Directus is always at the top of self-hosted CMS lists, but one of the reasons I avoid it and other PHP self-hosted headless CMS solutions is due to the difficulties(tech debt) of automating dev environments and CI/CD pipelines across different distros and OSes.

I would have possibly given Directus a spin if it didn't have hard dependencies on the following PHP system extensions: curl, gd, finfo, pdo_mysql and mbstring. Not to go too off topic, but I wish PHP extensions could be installed via Composer and Packagist (similar to how NPM handles native modules).

[meritt]

The problem you're describing is precisely why containers are so popular. You can install and deploy any app even if it doesn't provide user-level installation choices (such as php native extensions)

[shrthnd]

  curl -O https://github.com/directus/directus-docker/blob/master/docker-compose.yml
  docker-compose up