Otto Makes Development and Deployment a Breeze

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Otto is an open source tool for creating virtual development environments for your application. It is the successor to the popular virtual development tool vagrant. Both of the projects are created by Hashicorp.

Virtual development environments abstract away the application's environment from the underlying operating system. This will ensure the application's consistency across most/all platforms and eliminating platform-based issues from creeping in. Otto makes it easy to create such development environments and can help set up the same environment on production servers, too.

Today we will see how to deploy a simple database-backed Rails application to AWS using Otto. Start by installing Otto in your machine if it's not there already.

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