I can't edit my old comment, but it's extremely disturbing that I got downvoted so much. What I described is literally the best practice. If you don't use Dock

I can't edit my old comment, but it's extremely disturbing that I got downvoted so much. What I described is literally the best practice. If you don't use Docker containers, use some other form of Immutable Infrastructure like Packer VM images. But those are huge and clunky, so you should really get used to Docker containers. You could instead make Linux packages, but they don't make for as Immutable a system as the OS state constantly changes, and packaging is more work in general.