[hevalon]

I use chef and test-kitchen to bootstrap my dev-VM (vagrant is used by test kitchen). So I have written my cookbooks, and depending on the project, I converge (spinning-up) VMs depending only on cookbooks that I need, eg no java will be installed if the project requires node.js only. In addition the main gain with that, is my dev VMs are totally disposable and they own nothing. Everything is being synced into the VM from my host machine, same with data.

Lately I am trying to "dockerize" my backends, so in the case my workspace project needs a mongoDB or an other backend from my architecture, I should be pulling those containers up on converging. That will make my life easier when writting cookbooks for the backend dependencies.

I believe you can achieve the same using ansible, chef was a personal taste.