I learned about vagrant from this old HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714149 I wanted to call out t

I learned about vagrant from this old HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714149 I wanted to call out the advice from that article to use fabric (if you use python) to control the vagrant+VM instances. You use chef/puppet to configure the VM, and then use fabric to, for instance, switch between virtualenvs for different apps within the virtual host. I used it that summer to work on a web app while I took my daughter to swim lessons, and it was well worth my while.