Developing a site as an install profile gives you the ability to quickly install a clean, fully functional site from code, makes development environments easier to manage, and mitigates the need to pass a canonical database around. It also means you can spin up a completely new instance of your site, rebranded with completely different content.

Excellent configuration management was introduced with Drupal 8, however if you're building a site as an install profile the process of managing default configuration can take a bit to get the hang of.

Follow along as we explain the concept of building your Drupal 8 project as an install profile.