For years we’ve been depending on virtual LAMP stacks such as MAMP, XAMPP, or WAMP to aid us in our WordPress development. The server landscape has changed and LAMP is no longer necessarily the best option. With Vagrant, we can create and distribute virtual development environments that allow us to match our production environments. This eliminates possible hours of unrelated troubleshooting when a configuration on the server shows a different issue that that of your local environment. This also keeps your local machine clear of the server software it shouldn’t care about by providing a clean sandbox to play in.