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I work at the command line every day. I develop in Linux, but have a Mac laptop. I use Vagrant to do all of my development.
How does that work out? On the whole pretty great. Here's what I like:
* Spinning up my development box is as simple as "vagrant up", getting in there is as simple as "vagrant ssh"
* Vagrant boxes are specified in Vagrantfiles, where you describe what steps to do when you make a new one. At this point I have codified most of what I need to spin up a new vagrant box in my Vagrant file. New computer? I'm up and running in a few minutes.
* Vagrant allows us to test out all our builds in a fully virtualized environment on developer laptops. It's actually kinda beautiful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have only one complaint about Vagrant, and to be honest this complaint is largely related to my own misuse of the tool:
If you power off your laptop at the wrong time, it is possible for a Vagrant image to become corrupted. I lost two development boxes to this (in both cases it was when I had to hold the power button because Mac OS locked up for unrelated reasons). It sucks, but that said, it also enforces a mode of thinking around ephemeral machines that I find very helpful. Both times I've lost a vagrant dev box, I've spent some time making my Vagrantfile better so getting back to speed is increasingly painless Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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It is a very flexible tool which allows for easy setup of replicable environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Its community is not that large, so it might be tricky to interact Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is powerfull and supported by HashiCorp, which provides piece of mind for enterprise developers/operators that need to manage virtual environments for different types of applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
In the last 2 years, I moved from Vagrant to Docker because the Docker ecosystem seems to have more adoption and there are more resources. Vagrant seems to have been frozen in time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This platform will allow you to perform functions for the development of your WEB page, improve your document management and you will be able to automate virtual machines, the system and tools are attractive because we can improve and create the page with programming languages. performed by a virtual machine avoiding throwing errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is necessary to have technical experience, the learning curve is very long, I have required to call support to give me a hand with the configurations, it is not a simple software and you need support help to install and adapt it, in order to understand the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I really loved Vagrant when I used it to reproduce a Virtual machine with PHP 5.3, which were no more downloadable or easily configured in my local machine.
I found a great pack with all I needed (PHP 5.3 and Apache ), it's also highly customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There aren't things I dislike about Vagrant, I found it really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This software is a marvel of modern computing. Never before has it been so easy to develop in multiple environments on just one pc or laptop. With a simple two word command, a virtual machine is created and launched. Vagrant goes out to the cloud and retrieves the chosen OS allowing for the developer to concentrate on the project rather than wasting extra time maintaining copies of development OSs and doing manual installations. This also makes it very easy to have the same development variables on multiple machines for multiple team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I dislike that it is not more widely used. I also dislike How technical and complicated it looks at first glance. Vagrant is actually very simple to grasp a decent understanding rather quickly. The average user can be up and be running with Vagrant with minimal effort contrary to what a quick overview might lead to sugest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Provision a virtual machine mimicking your production environment in minutes. Or, should you need, easily integrate with third-party plugins and perform advanced customizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When compared to Docker, swapping out components within your stack is a bit tedious. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Vagrant makes creating Virtual Machines super easy. Vagrantfiles can be fully customized for any operating system and can integrate with provisioning software such as Chef and Ansible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Slight learning curve but there is lots of examples and documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ability to distribute a configured environment to a group of people for development, QA, or general consistency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The initial configuration takes a long time to get right, but once done right, it's perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Vagrant is much better than trying to run a production-like stack directly on your local machine, especially once you factor in complications like working with a team of developers who run different OSes. Vagrant was a game changer that revolutionized many aspects of software engineering workflow and is still a useful tool with a barrier to entry that isn't prohibitively high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's so unbelievably slow. The rate of development is absolutely glacial. Massive bugs go unfixed and/or unreleased for several months at a time. That wouldn't be so bad if there were an easy way to switch to a development branch of the program, but there isn't. It doesn't scale as a solution: you either have to have several massive VMs installed side-by-side to keep environments discreet or you need to have to use one extra-monolithic VM that has all your environments colocated, which just moves the technical debt Vagrant was meant to solve off of your host machine and into a guest VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
