So I need to be able to have dev/stage/production iterations (over separate servers) for a WordPress website, I use git usually but this obviously isn't going to work with WordPress sites because of the reliance on the database for the main configuration of... well, almost everything.

So my question is how do you guys do it? I had a quick Google and saw that there was a few plugins, is this the only way? Which ones do the job the best in terms of ease of use, speed, reliability, ui etc.?