Vagrant is great for Drupal Dev, but I prefer Lando
February 12, 2021

Vagrant is great for Drupal Dev, but I prefer Lando

Josh Stapp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Vagrant

Vagrant is used to create virtual machines for our Drupal servers locally so we can develop on Macs and not have issues when our servers are running Linux. It helps make sure there are no errors building a slightly different package of code, which could easily happen on a Mac.
  • Speed vs other VMs
  • Documentation
  • Robust, older than many VMs
  • 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
  • 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
I liked lando better because lando seemed extremely easy to setup compared to other VM's and it seemed faster though that project was simpler. Virtualbox I ran on windows and it has a gui and has often been slow. The vagrant boxes I used did well but had slightly more problems than lando.

Do you think HashiCorp Vagrant delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with HashiCorp Vagrant's feature set?

Yes

Did HashiCorp Vagrant live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of HashiCorp Vagrant go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy HashiCorp Vagrant again?

Yes

Vagrant is well suited for a team that needs a VM so that only a couple engineers can worry about the environment setup and others can focus on the code. I would give it an eight, but I had a slightly easier experience with lando. Vagrant, however, is older and more widespread, so it could have more features I didn't need.