I'm on the opposite spectrum. I don't want to deal with written instructions. A shell program will do but a container is the best. Give me an environment with all dependencies, software, and some decent configuration method. A config file over a volume will do, env vars are better. Dockerfile tells me everything I need to know about the environment the app requires.

I can run that container in CI, in tests (with stuff like testcontainers), on my laptop, in production, on Kubernetes, in Mesos, Lambda, whatever.

Instrumentation usually ends up in Prometheus and Jaeger.