What is Vagrant used for?
Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the “works on my machine” excuse a relic of the past.
What is Vagrant vs Docker?
Vagrant is a tool focused on providing a consistent development environment workflow across multiple operating systems. Docker is a container management that can consistently run software as long as a containerization system exists.
Is Vagrant a hypervisor?
Vagrant comes with support out of the box for Hyper-V, a native hypervisor written by Microsoft. Hyper-V is available by default for almost all Windows 8.1 and later installs. The Hyper-V provider is compatible with Windows 8.1 and later only.
What is Vagrant and VirtualBox?
Vagrant is an open-source tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage boxes of virtual machines through an easy to use command interface. Essentially, it is a layer of software installed between a virtualization tool (such as VirtualBox, Docker, Hyper-V) and a VM.
Is Vagrant safe?
Access to the Vagrant Machine By default, Vagrant machines are only accessible from the localhost. SSH access uses randomly generated key pairs, and therefore it is secure. The password for root and vagrant is “vagrant” by default.
Is Vagrant like Docker?
Where Docker relies on the host operating system, Vagrant includes the operating system within itself as part of the package. One big difference between Docker and Vagrant is that Docker containers run on Linux, but Vagrant files can contain any operating system. It just needs to run within a Linux virtual machine.
Is Vagrant still used?
However, Vagrant is still a virtual machine, albeit one with more powerful features than the bog-standard VM tools out there; for instance you can integrate Vagrant with CM tools such as Puppet and Chef to provision your own VM setups and configs.
Who invented Vagrant?
Mitchell Hashimoto
Vagrant (software)
| Vagrant starting a virtual machine using vagrant up | |
|---|---|
| Original author(s) | Mitchell Hashimoto |
| Developer(s) | HashiCorp (Mitchell Hashimoto and John Bender) |
| Initial release | March 8, 2010 |
| Stable release | 2.2.18 / July 27, 2021 |
Is Vagrant free?
The getting started tutorials use Vagrant with VirtualBox, since it is free and available on every major platform. Vagrant can work with many other providers.