Ready for freedom in your development environment? Time to let go of MAMP or platform-specific hosting or development environments? Learn how to spin up a complete server environment (from Apache to mysql to Drupal), loaded and armed with your site's code from your repository - all automated with a single command!

We'll use a VirtualBox machine, vagrant and chef to create your environment, and we'll version-control it all so that other sites can be spun up based on their branches in your environment repo.

We'll discuss two alternatives to configuration and content management - one in which we use features and migrations to spin up complete sites; another in which we pull in our database from a file kept outside of our virtual machine.

Lastly we'll discuss version control both in and outside of your virtual machine, getting comfortable knowing what survives when we shut down your virtual machine.