I haven't used it in a while but Vagrant used to be great for "setting this up with apt and the language's package manager would be straightforward, but contai

I haven't used it in a while but Vagrant used to be great for "setting this up with apt and the language's package manager would be straightforward, but containerizing it would be a pain" one-offs, to keep it off your base system. And didn't require you to keep an entire image around to do it again, just the vagrant config file.