I'm a strong advocate of boring technology too but I'm also very much in favor of keeping things off my dev machine. In that case they have to run ssh, git and run a script to switch endpoints.

My current boring system for a simple Rails app (https://getbirdfeeder.com) is that I push to GitLab, the CI builds a docker image and does the ssh & docker-compose up -d dance. That way I can deploy / roll back from anywhere even without my computer as long as I can log into GitLab (and maybe even fix things with their web editor). Seems a lot "more boring" to me and having the deploy procedore codified in a .gitlab-ci.yml acts as documentation too.