[jwarren]

Bit late to this game, but in theory would this let me do the following?

1. Set up a VM using CentOS to mimic my deployment environment

2. Distribute that to several people, including some running Windows and OSX, and have it automatically set up, with all parties reliably in exactly the same environment.

[lstamour]

This particular post was a feature announcement, but Vagrant will indeed do that. For a summary, see the homepage under "Vagrant will change how you work," -- http://www.vagrantup.com/

I've personally used it for creating and iterating quickly on Puppet scripts. I've seen it recommended for devops with Chef also. See also: http://www.packer.io/ (for making your own gold master vm images; written in Go by the same guys)

[jwarren]

Excellent, thank you!