Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:26:14PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29 2015,tomas@tuxteam.de nil wrote:
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> > IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions...
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> > 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...
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> Thanks but if you/anyone can expand on what vagrant provides that a VM
> lacks, it'd help more.
Vagrant is a build-and-manage system for VMs. If you were, say,
trying to deploy a hundred Debian webservers and Red Hat database servers
on Amazon's cloud service, Vagrant is a thing you should look
at.
-dsr-
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