[kcorbitt]

I have the same setup. Vagrant for VMs with an Ansible provisioner. I reuse about 80% of my playbooks between production and development, and the places they differ is primarily in setting up my dev environment nicely with the shell and SSH access to prod and all that. It really helps to have everything both locally and in prod "disposable"... a couple of times I've run into hairy slightly strange behavior locally and it's great to be able to blow it away, run "vagrant up" again and in 20 minutes have a pristine, matching-prod dev environment.