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If you're working on a Linux workstation, Docker will spin up and run much faster than either VirtualBox or VMWare. This alone makes it worth switching. I don'
by cmiles74 9y ago
If you're working on a Linux workstation, Docker will spin up and run much faster than either VirtualBox or VMWare. This alone makes it worth switching.
I don't know what the current situation is on Windows or MacOSX. Back when I used them for my own work, the only choice was to run a VirtualBox instance running Linux and then run Docker on top of that. Clearly that solution is more of a lateral move from Vagrant.
- ishbits 9y agoUnless you need to spin up OpenBSD and FreeBSD instances with an almost like Docker workflow. That’s where I use Vagrant still.
- kristopolous 9y agoOk cool. I'd like applications to have a shared persistent storage space which isn't destroyed in between executions and their own network address. Haven't been able to pull it off. If I can't get that then it's a non-starter.
- cmiles74 9y agoUnderstood, everyone's use case is different. On my team, we were using Vagrant to spin up something that looked a lot like our test environment (and, in turn, production) and that was a server running MySQL, Apache and PHP. Setting up a Docker instance that ran both and included some test data wasn't hard to setup and was faster to spin up on Linux workstations.
- kristopolous 9y agoI'm totally open to trying again if I can get to success.
- askz 9y agoSo, what is your stack ? I can help
- bryanlarsen 9y agoOn Linux you have much better options for vagrant than Virtual Box. I recommend vagrant-lxc