Comment by avhception
3 years ago
I deployed Gentoo professionally for a few years in two roles, a locked-down desktop and a small server for small retail stores. What I did was to create a golden image, tar it up as a stage4.tar.xz, have a script unpack it into a new LVM volume and boot into the new volume. Application data lived on separate LVM volumes. Worked great for the time. I have switched to RockyLinux + Autoinstaller + Ansible since then.
The company where I worked was making webservice (VAS and mobile service) and it needs a dynamic environment. For your use case, gentoo can be a good solution.