Well, Vagrant is a utility that wraps popular virtual managers such as virtualbox and vmware under a single user interface (the vagrant command line) and provid

Well, Vagrant is a utility that wraps popular virtual managers such as virtualbox and vmware under a single user interface (the vagrant command line) and provide configurations to setup a VM along with user-defined boostrap scripts (puppet, chef, ansible, salt, bash script, etc). Based on the way you describe you situation, I think the barrier is in configuration management. That is, writing a puppet or an ansible script is still very time consuming. A vagrant machine in general is nothing more than a vanilla server after a full install. For me, I am beginning to investigate the possibility to create a system package (e.g. debian package) for all the apps I need to run. I think FPM will help.