Using Vagrant, why is puppet provisioning better than a custom packaged box?

Question

I\'m creating a virtual machine to mimic our production web server so that I can share it with new developers to get them up to speed as quickly as possible. I\'ve been through

Answer 1

One great advantages not explicitly mentioned above is the fact that you'd be documenting your setup (properly), and your documentation will be the actual setup - not a (one-time) description of how things were/may have been intended to be.