A Development Workflow Based on Vagrant and Installation Profiles

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The goal of this session is to propose a development workflow which is satisfactory both for you and your team.

This presentation will address the following questions:

What is Vagrant? How to install it? What is it compatible with?
How does it enable my team to be more productive and help our contributors?
Why does it improve our workflows?
Typical uses within a Drupal environment. Quickstart with VDD (Vagrant Drupal Development).
Are there any tools to help us bootstrap the Vagrant configuration? Yes: puphpet.com / phansible.com → quick demo.
Other devops use cases such as testing server configuration tools (Chef / Puppet / Ansible / etc...)

We will also argue for the introduction in such a development worfklow of installation profiles and Drush makefiles:

What are they, how can they help you structure your developments?
What are the advantages of keeping only your installation profiles under revision control, as opposed to versioning a whole Drupal platform along with whole Drupal contrib projects?
How to cleanly manage patches?