Vagrant is a very awesome tool that makes it very easy to develop your projects in virtual machines on your laptop or PC. It’s a wrapper around VirtualBox. It also makes them very easy to maintain and they can be used by a whole group of developers. This way all the developers that work on a project keep the same development environment. So that kicks the argument “But on my machine it works” out of the door.. finally!

Read all about it at http://www.vagrantup.com/.

There are a few provisioners available like Cheff, Puppet, More >