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Setting up my perfect dev environment on OSX 10.9 using Chef / Kitchenplan

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Re: Setting up my perfect dev environment on OSX 10.9 using Chef / Kitchenplan

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Looks pretty cool. One question, why install local LAMP stack, and not use virtual machines?

If Vagrant is too much effort & hassle, why not have a reasonably basic CentOS (or whatever your main servers are) image on a network share which your devs can clone and mess up to their hearts content?

I used to use the local stuff, which in the end included a whole macports system, but since switching to virtual machines, I'd never want to go back...

Re: Setting up my perfect dev environment on OSX 10.9 using Chef / Kitchenplan

#5

Looks pretty cool. One question, why install local LAMP stack, and not use virtual machines? If Vagrant is too much effort & hassle, why not have a reasonably basic CentOS (or whatever your main servers are) image on a network share which your devs can clone and mess up to their hearts content? I used to use the local stuff, which in the end included a whole macports system, but since switching to virtual machines, I…

Mostly speed, we have full chef cookbooks for our servers and vm's but developing on native ssd's is just faster.