[matthewmacleod]

Nonsense. Don't force employees into any particular environment. While a good developer will always be able to adapt to using a new set of equipment, I'd wager that the productivity gain from allowing them to customise it will exceed any costs involved in helping them set it up.

Anyway, I reckon the time spent writing automation scripts would be better spent fixing your application so that it's dev setup process is less broken :)

[cyberpunk]

I'm with you. Besides, if someone asked me to run some puppet or whatever on my laptop at a client; I'm not sure I'd be able to stop myself from getting physical...

Docker is really found a sweet spot here though. You can pull in, move around, clone, bla bla whole working environments, or just skels which are ready to run/compile your code with a simple bunch of commands and it works pretty agnostically across almost all clients.

Doing a 'docker run someapp:prod' should be within grasp of anyone without the load of 'stuff'/config mgt that we had to deal with back in the vagrant dayz..

[hobarrera]

Exactly! Sure, I can use eclipse. But I'll probably write 10x code if you let me use vim, exactly as I've configured it on my own laptop. I did configure it that way for a reason.