Abstract: Without a development environment that closely matches your production environment, the process of promoting your code from dev to prod will be fraught with peril. We will go into the fine details that you need to know to get started working with Vagrant, VirtualBox and Puppet, teaching the tools needed to not only stabilize your development environment, but improve the confidence you have in your code as it is promoted from development to production.
If you saw this talk at Midwest PHP 2014, please rate it on joind.in.
Be sure to check out the other talk I gave at Midwest PHP, about all of the other things you and your organization will see in the process of implementing a true development environment and consistency between environments: Much more Eggs than Bacon: A Development Environment Cookbook.
Additional resources:
- Demo and Best Practices Repository
- Vagrant
- Puppet
- VirtualBox (Version 4.2.16 is what you want, from here)
- PuPHPet