WHAT IS VAGRANT?
• Tool to build complete development environment
• Sandboxed in a virtual machine
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WHY VAGRANT?
• Provides similar development environment across
team / project
• Reduce development environment setup time
• Increases production / development parity
• Reduce “it works in my machine” issue
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PROVIDERS
• Provides virtualized machines for dev
envinronment
• Oracle Virtualbox (default)
• AWS
• VMWare
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CONFIGURATION
• Plain text file (Vagrantfile)
• Ruby DSL
• Provisioning Tools : Shell, Puppet, Chef, Salt,
Ansible
• Can use similar provisioning with production
• Can be shared and versioned in Source Control
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WHAT IS DOCKER?
• Open source engine
• Automates deployment applications into container
• Use same linux kernel with host’s
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WHY DOCKER?
• Configure Once, Run Anywhere
• Multiple docker in a single machine
• Rapid scaling and deployment
• Provide standardize environment in development,
staging, and production
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CONFIGURATION
• Simple plain text file ( Dockerfile )
• Can be shared and versioned
• Docker Hub
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DOCKER VS VAGRANT
• Not Apple to Apple
• Docker can run inside Vagrant
• Vagrant allow us to install all we need for
development purposes e.g. OS, apps, etc.
• Docker allow us to run self-contained applications
with assured libraries and dependencies.