A lot of PHP applications or websites (especially small ones) just require a basic LAMP stack at a bare minimum to work fine - e.g.: the success of XAMPP/WAMPP/

A lot of PHP applications or websites (especially small ones) just require a basic LAMP stack at a bare minimum to work fine - e.g.: the success of XAMPP/WAMPP/CRAMP/TRAMP/BAMP/CLAMP whatever. (Yes, there's plenty of extras that could/should be added for doing things the right way) For example, a lot of Vagrant LAMP users don't require much provisioning at all. Of the top 10 most downloaded Vagrant boxes [1], two of them are pre-provisioned (or nearly) Vagrant boxes. Homestead [2]: 2,769,045 downloads and Scotch Box [3]: 275,963 downloads. The biggest problem with these setups is deployment. Vagrant Push [4] requires a little bit too much overhead for this audience. The blog announcement even admits this. Hell, Laravel/Taylor Otwell (the Homestead guys) even built a full on deployment service called Forge [5]. If I had to guess, Otto basically is a hybrid to all this. Like an easy Vagrant and basic Heroku all-in-one to help push their Hashicorp's Atlas product. I'm definitely looking forward to testing it out. Personally loving Hashicorp. [1] http://vagrantcloud.com http://vagrantcloud.com [2] http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/homestead http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/homestead [3] https://box.scotch.io https://box.scotch.io [4] https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/push https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/push [5] https://forge.laravel.com https://forge.laravel.com