At my first job almost 10 years ago we had the concept of "X-in-a-box" using Vagrant + VMs and I miss that pattern so much ever since (multiple job skips later)

At my first job almost 10 years ago we had the concept of "X-in-a-box" using Vagrant + VMs and I miss that pattern so much ever since (multiple job skips later). None of my jobs since have had any semblance of a better way to set up a local dev environment easily. It was just way easier to encapsulate services or other things in a quickly reproducible state. I digress..