Laravel: building local environment

I need some kind of tool that would take care of building (resetting) my local environment in Laravel 5.1. I would like to have many test entries in my database and I'm using seeders for that. But what I also need, is image processor. I have images sizes configuration and for those test entries, I would like to have working thumbnails to test a real-world experience.

My question is, what kind of approaches / tools are suitable for my needs? I thought about creating Artisan command that would take care of copying those images. That command would check for current environment and quit if it's production.

Are there better tools for automating the process of building and resetting local environment? How is it solved in large projects workflows?

via Chebli Mohamed