Basic vagrant tutorial for windows

Maybe you know that situation. You work in a company with a big software development department and you have high fluctuation. Every couple weeks a new intern is starting. Every couple months a new employee or freelancer is starting and you always have the problem of on boarding. They all need a development environment to get started. And in the best case all dev. environments should be identical. You want to ensure that everybody is working with the exact same version of MongoDB, Java, Ruby, PHP, Eclipse, NetBeans and whatever.

In some companies this on boarding and the whole process of setting up a new development environment takes 5 days. A whole week, until somebody can start to become productive. With Vagrant that whole ramp up time can be cut down to less than 1 hour!

In the previous blog post I described how to get started with Vagrant quickly. This blog post will describe how to use Vagrant to setup a whole development environment.

This blogpost goes into detail how on we leverage Vagrant, an open source  tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments, in our day to day work. We use it with a team of 7 people to integrate a pretty complex application