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+## The Landscape
+
+* "You will need a few days to get a development environment set up and working."
+* "We added a new service; we should really document that."
+* "Are you sure you're running the same version of Python?"
+* "It works on my machine!"
+
+That's not how things should be; we should fix it.
+
+## What Do We Want?
+
+Dev environments that
+
+* mirror production as much as possible
+* are low-cost
+* are disposable
+* don't suck to develop on
+
+### Why?
+
+* portability -- for new hire: a setup that just works 
+* consistency
+* reusability
+
+* Vagrant == most popular tool
+    * wraps around other tools: VMWare, virtualbox etc.
+
+## Provisioning tools
+
+* Ansible
+* Chef
+* Docker
+* Puppet
+* SaltStack
+
+* tell Vagrant in provisioning that this VM is a development box
+
+## Advantages of virtualization
+
+* different amounts of RAM
+* different OSs
+* `vagrant share` allows you to share your box with others