Vagrant

Vagrant is a "must have" cross-platform software that creates and configures virtual development environments.It works like a mix of virtualization and a configuration management.

Was developed by HashiCorp (Mitchell Hashimoto and John Bender) and the first release was on March 8, 2010.

Vagrant lowers development environment setup time increasing the development/production productivity. We can package and share hour virtual environment with the rest of the team , avoiding frustration and "work on my machine" costly errors.

"To achieve its magic, Vagrant stands on the shoulders of giants. Machines are provisioned on top of VirtualBox, VMware, AWS, or any other provider. Then, industry-standard provisioning tools such as shell scripts, Chef, or Puppet, can be used to automatically install and configure software on the machine."

(Vagrant Up Docs, Why Vagrant)