Thinking about this some more: I tend to be a 'scratch your own itch' type person, and I haven't had a place where I needed this elsewhere. I think it would work pretty well think anything that was wrapping a series of commands with a specific tool. The first thing that came to mind was docker. I could put together an example for how to do something simple in docker, maybe following the steps in https://docs.docker.com/get-started/02_our_app/. If that sounds interesting, let me know.