If you do a lot of Chef development, you are creating cookbooks with recipes. But also converging, testing and destroying virtual machines with Test Kitchen that uses Vagrant. In this process, virtual machines are often destroyed and build from the ground up. For every new build, all of the yum or debian packages must be downloaded and installed again. If your internet connection is not blazing fast, this will certainly slow down your work tempo a lot.

Install and configure Squid

But no worries, we can fix that with the use of the wonderful vagrant-proxyconf More >