You mentioned above that you were planning to check out SaltStack, this tutorial will give you working understanding of it. Development machines setups: The

You mentioned above that you were planning to check out SaltStack, this tutorial will give you working understanding of it. Development machines setups: The tutorial walks you through running your app on virtualbox machines the run locally, so that is an option. However, it doesn't cover how to set up a development environment outside of a virtual machine. Installation of deps and packages: This it covers thoroughly. Staging and production releases: It does not walk you through this explicitly, but once you go through the tutorial, using the tools it teaches to do this is fairly straightforward.