I use vagrant a lot for testing provisioning scripts. For example, having an Ansible setup with 2-app, 3-mongo and 1 redis server makes the script complicated,

I use vagrant a lot for testing provisioning scripts. For example, having an Ansible setup with 2-app, 3-mongo and 1 redis server makes the script complicated, so I use >close< to production ( DO / Linode ) Linux distribution and try the scripts on my local machine. Works like charm.