Absolutely. I love Vagrant. Last night one of my virtual machines flaked out, and because everything was managed with Puppet, I just deleted the VM and told vagrant to recreate.

10 minutes later I was back in business like nothing happened.

Had a physical machine of mine failed it would have been a fun few hours of machine debugging, instead of "oh, I'll just destroy and recreate the VM, no biggy"

Interesting - I see we both have projects on github called "vagrant-base"!

On mine (https://github.com/drench/vagrant-base) each branch sets up a different environment (Drupal, node.js, generic "LAMP", etc.). They currently all use shell scripts for initialization, but converting them to Puppet is on the list. I may borrow from your project's Puppet manifest.

Awesome, glad I could help! Puppet is really nice, once you see a few examples of how it works

Oh yeah, Vagrant. That is the name of it. If I had to use VirtualBox, that would be what I would be using to manage the VMs.

kree10, thanks for bringing up Vagrant. I might use it in my next laptop, though I'd have to make some improvements to it.