[vbsteven]

It depends. Many small projects I'm involved in already have a docker-compose.yml with database, backend and other services. Combined with a private docker registry somewhere (Gitlab, ECR). If that is available I will use docker to deploy.

If that is not available, then it depends on how complex the dependency graph is. If it is simple and I can just `apt install` all dependencies then I'll wrap the install in an Ansible Playbook and use systemd. If not I create my own docker-compose.yml for deployment.

edit: when multiplexing multiple projects on the same host (happens with very small projects) I always use docker.