Copying a virtualized environment (e.g., a VMware image, running a Vagrant script, booting an Amazon Machine Image file in EC2) Building an automated environment creation process that starts from “bare metal” (e.g., PXE install from a baseline image) Using “infrastructure as code” configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, CFEngine, etc.) Using automated operating system configuration tools (e.g., Solaris Jumpstart, Red Hat Kickstart, Debian preseed) Assembling an environment from a set of virtual images or containers (e.g., Vagrant, Docker) Spinning up a new
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