Ask HN: Save developer time by automating setup?

Re:Ask HN: Save developer time by automating setup? by conroy on Monday July 22, 2013 @04:36AM (#6082529)

All-in-one solutions (Nitrous, RunKite) provide cloud IDEs and servers, letting you get up and running fast.

PaaS providers (Heroku, DotCloud) host your app, so you don't even have to worry about servers.

Virtual machine tools (Vagrant, VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion) let you run your production setup locally without having to SSH into a remote host.

Laptop configuration (GitHub's Boxen, Pivotal's sprout) let you configure your laptops just like servers.

I'm also working on a project (http://www.stackmachine.com) to solve some of these problems.

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Re:Ask HN: Save developer time by automating setup? by xcbnxcbxmcb on Monday July 22, 2013 @09:32PM (#6087645)

Thanks for the great list of tools to explore. I had already tried out Heroku, Nitrous and VirtualBox but new to everything else on that list. I'm trying those out now and have also signed up on StackMachine... most of the tools solve only a part of the problem but I guess I need to figure out the combination to use.

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