Staging/production host/data center/cloud compatibility

[123batman]

Hello Paulo,

is there a way to reuse or extend your work to the setup of a staging/production server setup?
I mean I have your setup running on my dev machine via vagrant and now I want to set up a server and run your scripts and it should set up the VMs on the other server. Can you give me your opinion about what would be a good approach to do so? Or any downsides? Should I go through vagrant's options and try to get this repo running on a hypervisor that is more suited to data-center VMs? Or should I redo everything and just use parts? For bare-metal installations that'd be the only option, right?
The obvious flaw in this plan is that if you release a new version I just throw away the VMs and restart everything from scratch. So with a staging or production setup there should be a way of doing updates in a more sophisticated way.
The kubernetes repo offers a variety of different installation options. The alternative would be to use your setup during development and another more production-ready install for staging/production. But that would mean having knowledge about two different ways of setting up kubernetes which seems sub-optimal. I think the development environment should resemble production as close as possible.
What install method/infrastructure or cloud platform do you use for your production workloads? I want to make sure that I have a production setup that works best with this repo.

[pires]

This is for local testing/development only. I strongly recommend not to go with this to production!