[jcollin]

We don't use Vagrant, but we use VMs. The workflow is a little bit more convoluted than directly on the host, but we get the benefits of having a consistent way to create environments that are closer - if not identical - to what our customers have.

In essence, we do most of our development on Windows, but deploy our solution on Linux. For databases, our former development environment relied on Windows drivers that didn't have the same bugs than the Linux implementations. Hence, we caught these bugs much later in the development phase.

Another advantage is that we can deploy different releases of our solution simultaneously.

Of course, the cost to get there was to define a new pipeline to build artefacts that we ship on the boxes, but that was a little price to pay.