#1 most frequent
United States of America
57.8%659 installations of 1,141
What is HashiCorp Vagrant?
Vagrant is a tool designed to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. It leverages a declarative configuration file which describes all software requirements, packages, operating system configuration, and users.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses HashiCorp Vagrant
#2 most frequent
Canada
6.3%72 installations of 1,141
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4.7%54 installations of 1,141
Vagrant: Repeatability and Matching Environments at the Cost of Training and Disk Bloat
Pros
- Extremely efficient project scaffolding of a dev/test environment
- Repeatable results (for the most part).
- Great variety of community boxes and plugins
- Free
Cons
- Major updates have introduced bugs with consequences in our dev projects
- Syntax updates have major repercussions for plugin compatibility
- Community support is a lengthy process
Return on Investment
- Local development makes for almost realtime visual feedback for front-end designers
- Quick deployable environment tools gets my teams up and running very quickly
- Disk size bloat resulting from hosting an OS in a VM can be problematic for portable users.
Alternatives Considered
Docker
Other Software Used
Slack, Trello, InVision, Final Cut Pro X, VMware ESXi, Shopify, Klaviyo, Facebook for Business, Later, Tableau Public, TSheets, Bing Webmaster Tools, Google Ads (formerly AdWords), Google Search Console
Vagrant is great for Drupal Dev, but I prefer Lando
Pros
- Speed vs other VMs
- Documentation
- Robust, older than many VMs
Cons
- Not as fast as natively running Linux
- Occasionally I've had to kill instances to start new ones
- Can be more confusing to set up (especially auth) compared to native Linux
Return on Investment
- Saved lots of time by being able to set up a local env quickly
- Occasionally made troubleshooting bugs harder than it would have been using native Linux
- Clients had issues setting it up, which may have provided us some security in keeping their business
Other Software Used
Node.js, The Okta Identity Cloud, GitHub
Good tool with minor issues for users on Windows machines.
Pros
- Consistent, reliable virtual environments for web development
- Easy to use commands
Cons
- Lacks a GUI, would be useful for entry level users
- Uses lots of resources on old machines
- Compatibility issues with some operating systems (Windows 8.1 home, Windows 10 home)
Return on Investment
- Faster kick offs on projects
- Identical dev environments for users with different background and expertise
Alternatives Considered
Docker
Usability
Vagrant gives the flexibility and stability local development needs
Pros
- Vagrant is decentralized so anyone can make a container package to get a project started. you aren't limited to wordpress, or even one style of wordpress install (you can make a sage.io wordpress environment).
- Vagrant easily lets you set ports and URLs for local development.
- I have yet to have a problem with Vagrant, as opposed to MAMP and DesktopServer, which both gave me SQL or other issues.
Cons
- The learning curve is steep for deploying a vagrant package if you've never dealt the command line.
- Initially, it was a little difficult to get the networking right because I didn't have a lot of experience with using to the virtual machine.
Return on Investment
- Vagrant has sped up and streamlined a lot of my local development. Spinning up a server is really quick and I don't have to spend a lot of time debugging my environment.
Other Software Used
WP Engine, MailChimp, Sizmek
Vagrant - a must have to integrate with Chef
Pros
- Contained development environments on VMs, but with same structure as production environments
- Open-source
- Huge community
- Easy to set up
Cons
- It was great if Vagrant consumes less resources than what consumes today
Return on Investment
- Vagrant had a very positive impact, since it was really easy to set up on our organisation, without any cost
Alternatives Considered
Docker and Microsoft Azure
Other Software Used
Slack, Zoom, Docker, Lokalise, Atlassian Confluence, Gitlab, Node.js, React, Android Studio, Cisco AnyConnect
