Who this book is for

This book is for developers and administrators of nearly all skill levels. Throughout the book, I make a general assumption that you are creating Vagrant machines to support the development of other software. Vagrant itself does not become interesting or useful until you use it to support the deployment and development of other software. Vagrant makes it simple to create local environments that mimic production environments and takes advantage of the same provisioning techniques used on production servers. If you have a mature and robust deployment pipeline, Vagrant allows you to reproduce this process on development machines. If you do not have a robust development pipeline, Vagrant can help you begin developing the scripts and processes, making your development and deployment environments more consistent. Consistent environments will help you to reduce the problems associated with the deployment process, which allows you to focus on producing better software.