[chef] newbie question: first nodes local or remote?

[John Griessen < >]

I have some unused domains registered, so thought I'd like to use one with 
DNS defined
to match a node's IP, but have not found an example like that.  It seems I've 
jumped ahead of
the usual tutorial order of steps.

Should I create a vagrantup.com virtual machine to emulate a machine on my 
local network
to do the tutorials, and is this because that's a good workflow?  And I 
suppose it is going to be easy
to transfer a chef_client managed server instance to a hosted chef node after 
testing it?