At the occasion of the UL HPC School 2015, Sebastien Varrette had the opportunity to introduce two key tools that probably all IT researchers should be aware of (before using it on a daily basis):

• Git, the ultra-fast and efficient Version Control System
  • Slides: Introduction to Git – src
• Vagrant, which provides an easy to configure, reproducible, and portable work environments built on top of Virtualbox
  • Slides: Vagrant, Development environments made easy – src
  • Vagrant Manager for OS X
  • Build your own box using my vagrant-vms repository built on top of packer and veewee.