Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:20:13PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> I was making a debian VM to be used for a small teaching session on
> shell scripting that I was planning. Our IT infra came up to me and
> said, use Vagrant with it to make it easier. I looked at the Vagrant
> page and I can't wrap my head on what its for.
>
> That and Docker too. Why and how does it simplify things?
IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions...
On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on
different "technologies", those tools may help. But for single
(or very similar) VMs, some scripting glue around qemu-kvm are
probably simpler...
regards
- -- tomás
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