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Wasted time with development/test environments. What are your experiences?
I feel like I spend too much time struggling with setting up, configuring or fixing my development environments and also my test environments. Is this a common experience among developers?
What steps can I take or what tools can I take to help with this?
- benologist 11y agoYou can make reproducible environments with tools like http://www.vagrantup.com http://www.vagrantup.com or http://www.docker.com http://www.docker.com, you can create online workspaces using sites like https://www.c9.io https://www.c9.io and any other online IDE. I've found vagrant to be particularly satisfying because it assigns a virtual machine to a directory and you can easily jump in to the vm to manually get it to the state you want.
- devhead 11y agonormal problem to have, the solution depends on your stack. vagrant, docker, puppet/chef, packer and aws are what i use to create repeatable environments that don't need much attending to... once you get it set up the first time.