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Vagabond is an alternative take on the Vagrant tool, but one based on LXC rather than virtual machines after the realisation that VMs can be quite slow. Maybe worth a look if you run Linux and find lots of performance or stability issues with virtual machines.

Although Puppet Enterprise gives you the wonderful tools to automate your Linux administration, you still cannot deploy a server with a single command. With the following script, you can. Why is this so cool? When, for instance, a new Tomcat server is needed, I create a DNS entry for that server and give a single command and get some coffee. Before it has cooled down enough to drink, the developer has his Tomcat-app deployed and the server is operational. (It takes about 8 minutes to get from scratch to a fully operational server.)

A great starting point for anyone interested in the state of automation on Windows, especially if you're coming from a lInux environment. Lots of snippets to get started with powershell, Chocolatey packages and winrm.