Wasted time with development/test environments. What are your experiences?

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I feel like I spend too much time struggling with setting up, configuring or fixing my development environments and also my test environments. Is this a common experience among developers?

What steps can I take or what tools can I take to help with this?

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You can make reproducible environments with tools like http://www.vagrantup.com or http://www.docker.com, you can create online workspaces using sites like https://www.c9.io and any other online IDE.

I've found vagrant to be particularly satisfying because it assigns a virtual machine to a directory and you can easily jump in to the vm to manually get it to the state you want.

normal problem to have, the solution depends on your stack.

vagrant, docker, puppet/chef, packer and aws are what i use to create repeatable environments that don't need much attending to... once you get it set up the first time.

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