The world of development and operations can be quite frustrating when it comes to dependencies and environment setups. For both the developer and the operator the problem is dependencies; both roles have headaches getting their projects to run on other people’s computers. To the developer, the problem is getting the correct combination of languages, frameworks, and plugins on the other person’s machine. For the operator, it’s to have the correct installation and configuration of all the tools, utilities, and applications necessary. Vagrant solves both roles’ problems by allowing them to bundle all of their configured dependencies into a single format VM that is easily exported and imported across operating systems. This presentation will explain how Vagrant accomplishes this while going over why, when, and how you should use it for these purposes. While this talk is aimed at beginners, the content will include power-user tips and tricks valuable to intermediate Vagrant users.