Maintaining a consistent development environment is hard—especially for junior developers and designers with no interest in system administration.

In this one-hour talk, I'll show you how my team develops locally, in VPN (Virtual Private Network) connected Virtual Machines, and how we make a team distributed in 5 cities feel a little like we're all working in the same room.

We'll touch on VirtualBox, Puppet, Vagrant, dpkg/APT, Amazon AWS (EC2, especially), IRC, HTTP Proxies, and lots of other fun tech.