Berkshelf works nicely with Vagrant when you are using the chef-solo provisioner. If you're looking to use knife solo for setting up production environments, p

Berkshelf works nicely with Vagrant when you are using the chef-solo provisioner. If you're looking to use knife solo for setting up production environments, perhaps one thing to look at is Vagrant 1.1+ support for EC2 provisioning (assuming you're using AWS). You can also have Berkshelf install the declared cookbooks into a directory with `berks install -c $cookbook_dir` and then using knife-solo. Seems awkward, but I'd rather have dependencies managed in some way, rather than resolving the dependencies by hand.