How to develop locally and then deploy production conveniently?

Question

DigitalOcean

I want to develop a website/application in Laravel(PHP)/kaojs+io.js.
And I will probably need 2 instances and 2 environments to build for dev/production.
How convenient is it to develop and commit and deploy? I want to use git as a repository in both cases.
Those. is it possible to set up ubuntu on a local machine and transfer it all to DO and not set it up again?
How to simplify this process?

Answer 1

Use some configuration management system: Ansinble, chef, puppet...