Another benefit of containers is how simple deployments and scaling are with some of the managed services like Google Cloud Run. Reading through the comments,

Another benefit of containers is how simple deployments and scaling are with some of the managed services like Google Cloud Run. Reading through the comments, the options used by others for deploying on VMs (Nix, Rsync etc) seem much harder to manage. Curious if there are simple-r deployment strategies, or tools/services for deploying on VMs.