For the longest time, I was a Vagrant holdout at work. All projects we worked on would have getting a Vagrantfile and Chef cookbook set up as a first step, but I avoided using them. It seemed like something was always broken with any given app’s Vagrant setup. vagrant up rarely just worked for me, which was supposedly the promise of using Vagrant + Chef: a consistent development environment that put all developers on a level playing field with each other as well as with the production server environment.