I just use versioned Makefiles for my very simple personal projects with my artifacts and configs in git. Pull the repo to the box, and run the make file. I c

I just use versioned Makefiles for my very simple personal projects with my artifacts and configs in git. Pull the repo to the box, and run the make file. I commit config file changes then pull and make as needed. Everything is simple, it's manual automation so there is nothing running, but it's repeatable. I put the bootstrap into an OS package and my server images point to my personal repo so I can configure run and build time dependencies as needed. At the end of the day, I can get a new server, run update, install my package and walk away and everything should be running, but it takes almost no additional overhead over doing it all by hand the first time.