I'm not sure it's really that different. Say you have a .war running in Tomcat. You still have 1) provision your server, 2) make sure any dependencies or local services are installed, 3) deploy/redeploy your code. That's really all this does. The guide is just a bit long because it employs a lot of automation and I wanted to give background on how all that automation works.
If you strip it to just the code samples it's only like ~8 commands and you're running.