>So there must be something in-between, to recreate a linux install elsewhere?

There's a class of tools like chef, ansible, puppet.

Or you can just package your services into debs and run a Debian repo to install them from, same as the base OS

Possibly there's something closer to dockerfiles out there by now as well

>btw, you can click on the time of the post, and reply there when there is no reply link in the main thread.

Cool, thanks!

Makes me puzzled about the point of concealing the reply links, I guess it just adds a bit of friction?