What is Vagrant and how do you use it?

Vagrant is software that is used to manage a development environment. Through the command line, you can grab any available OS, install it, configure it, run it, work inside of it, shut it down, and more. Using VirtualBox and Vagrant, you can simulate the production environment of your app or website.

Is Vagrant used for production?

I’d not recommend using vagrant to manage VMs for real production. I’d use something else like razor, virsh, OpenStack or one of the many other vm management systems out there. That Vagrant ‘should’ be for staging/development is just an opinion.

What is Vagrant environment?

Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the “works on my machine” excuse a relic of the past.

How do I start using Vagrant?

Starting Over with VirtualBox and Vagrant

1. Install VirtualBox.
2. Install Vagrant.
3. Create a local directory for Vagrant.
4. Create a Vagrantfile in your newly created directory.
5. Run vagrant up and provisioning your virtual machine.

How do you use Vagrant in a sentence?

Vagrant in a Sentence 🔉

1. The vagrant does not appear to work and frequently asks tourists for money.
2. Because the vagrant has not had a bath in several weeks, he smells pretty bad.
3. Have you seen the vagrant who sleeps by the big oak tree in the park?

Is Vagrant a hypervisor?

Vagrant comes with support out of the box for Hyper-V, a native hypervisor written by Microsoft. Hyper-V is available by default for almost all Windows 8.1 and later installs. The Hyper-V provider is compatible with Windows 8.1 and later only.

Should I use Vagrant for development?

There are numerous benefits to using Vagrant to set up our development environment. Vagrant makes resetting our development environment super easy. This makes it easy to set up a new computer or recover if something is broken.