Bootstrapped founders wear many hats, and DevOps is usually not the one they want to wear. You build features. You talk to customers. You do not want to spend weeks learning Docker syntax or keeping setup instructions synchronized across different deployment platforms. But every time you use a different platform, you end up writing setup from scratch. One version gets the database startup command right. Another doesn’t. A third is a month out of date. Six months later, nobody on your team can onboard a new developer without debugging for hours.