IT:AD:Vagrant

Vagrant is best described as a VM Manager (abd not a Virtual Environment (VE) such as Docker provides).

• Advantages:
  • Allows scriptubg and package the VM config and the provisioning setup.

    • Designed to run on top of almost any VM tool – VirtualBox, VMWare, AWS, etc.
      • Default is VirtualBox, but plugins exist for others: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/providers/
    • As its a scriptable VM configuration manager, the creation of VMs can be integrated in your CI/CD workflow.
      * Considerations:
    • Although easier, Vagrant is still a VM, using more resources than a VE.