I'm in the same boat as you, I really really liked NanoBox because I could just not worry about deployment and I could stand up and tear down my whole infrastructure quickly after I was done with testing.

I was also concerned that NanoBox had gone quiet for a while, and I am a little scared of there being a DigitalOcean lock-in.

However... I love DigitalOcean and they seem to be going from strength to strength - looking at their block storage, managed databases and Kubernetes offerings as things I want to get playing with soon.

Excited for what the future holds for this.

I actually enjoy deployment, managing and setting up a new linux VM is fun. What about deployment do you dislike?

I think there's a couple of reasons:

- I've never felt comfortable with the command line, and only use it when I have to. I like the Nanobox will do everything for me with just a line or two (once you've created the Boxfile).

- Also, I tend to play around with a lot of small-ish ideas, so I want the ability to quickly throw something up without having to think about how I'd provision all the services, and if it did get big, I can scale it with Nanobox without having to figure out how to do it manually.

Reliable backups. But this was a problem nanobox didn‘t solve it yet.