I guess but Ansible > Digital Ocean wouldn't have helped me get a local dev environment. For that I needed containers or a VM - and containers are a much lighte

I guess but Ansible > Digital Ocean wouldn't have helped me get a local dev environment. For that I needed containers or a VM - and containers are a much lighter solution. I literally wasted nearly a day and filled up my drive with compilation artifacts last time I tried getting GeoDjango working. All those binary dependencies, subtle OS config changes and custom Postgres extensions can be a pain. So given my need for local deploy and remote deploy it's hard to think of a better solution.