Vagrant Cloud is a new service from Hashicorp that strives to make it easy
to share Vagrant boxes and to collaborate on provisioned instances
together. It's in very early beta, but I have started poking around a
little, and it looks interesting. I don't quite know yet how it will work
with our extensive custom plugin architecture, but I suspect that this is
not an insurmountable problem. Hashicorp is also committed to a freemium
model that makes the software stack free (as in speech) and the basic tier
of cloud services free (as in beer), so it may be possible for us to have
tighter integration with their service without compromising our values. If
your curiosity is piqued and you decide to check it out, please do report
back to the list with your findings -- it'd be good to know whether this is
something we'd want to watch or not.
It does require Vagrant 1.5.1, but I am happy to report that
MediaWiki-Vagrant is compatible! :)