If you have gone through my last post on Vagrant, you would have understood how important it is to have automations along with your development chores. In this race towards technological advancements, there are tones of tools, which help the developers fraternity to fasten up the development. Code base getting big and you get much more time to deliver a single user story. That’s how my stint to search something new, which makes life easier for the whole team. In this process, realized the power of Vagrant. But configuring it, for different environments was still difficult. That’s how I came to know about a site phpupet.com. Its a GUI for configurating Vagrant, with simple Puppet script.
What is PuPHPet ?
As I said above, its a GUI to configure you Virtual Machine, from multiple options of Web servers for PHP and multiple modules for PHP development. You just have to select servers, databases and modules you require for your development; and you are done. Download the manifest file, unzip it, and say “vagrant up”. That’s All! It will start downloading the packages on your virtualized distro. And within 15-20mins you will have your development environment ready, to play on.
Why to use it!
Answer is pretty simple, “Necessity is the Mother of all inventions.”
Advantages..
I have added the use case, where Vagrant fits in and when to go for such environments. Now it’s your turn to test it, and check whether it fits with your use case or not. But remember, once Spiderman said; “With great powers, comes great Responsibility” Enjoy!
Nishant Shrivastava 