Its really not hard at all to set up CI/CD into managed k8s on one of the clouds. You can still trivially use docker compose to set up a local dev environment

Its really not hard at all to set up CI/CD into managed k8s on one of the clouds. You can still trivially use docker compose to set up a local dev environment with all the application appliances like the DB or redis or what have you as docker containers. You get turn key environments with a ton of flexibility for what is honestly much less effort than even maintaining the setup documentation for installing the apps directly.