I personally prefer automated deployment scripts

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this doesn’t stop you from getting into an invalid state that is hard to recover from. mutable system state will bitrot your system over time.

yes, by that I also include a way to discard everything and start over

the only permanent thing in a service should be its data volumes

I’ve never had to start over on my machine for over 10 years, every switch to a new state is like a fresh install.