IT:AD:Vagrant
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Summary
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.