Why should I use Vagrant?

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 the difference between Vagrant and VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is basically inception for your computer. You can use VirtualBox to run entire sandboxed operating systems within your own computer. Vagrant is software that is used to manage a development environment.

Should I use Vagrant for development?

There are numerous benefits to using Vagrant to set up our development environment. Vagrant makes resetting our development environment super easy. This makes it easy to set up a new computer or recover if something is broken.

Can Vagrant run on a VM?

To start with, I am sure this will be the first question to any beginner. To answer this, Vagrant is a tool to “Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.” It is a highly efficient tool for managing virtual machines via CLI.

Does Vagrant work with VMware?

The Vagrant VMware Desktop plugin now supports both VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.

Is Vagrant still relevant?

Vagrant still has a place in the world, but for many cases Docker is taking over. The prime reason that docker is what we’re using is that from dev instances of services to dropping a production container on your desktop it’s easy to test similar to what is shipping.

Is vagrant still relevant?

Can vagrant run on a VM?

How do I use VMs with Vagrant?

Starting Over with VirtualBox and Vagrant

1. Install VirtualBox.
2. Install Vagrant.
3. Create a local directory for Vagrant.
4. Create a Vagrantfile in your newly created directory.
5. Run vagrant up and provisioning your virtual machine.

Can I use Vagrant on virtual machine?

To answer this, Vagrant is a tool to “Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.” It is a highly efficient tool for managing virtual machines via CLI. This increases your team’s productivity and flexibility.