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With VM's for local development? What to use for ensuring the right package versions are installed etc? Terraform?
by rattray 6y ago
With VM's for local development? What to use for ensuring the right package versions are installed etc? Terraform?
- bojo 6y agoI believe they were alluding to jails as the alternative here.
- rattray 6y agoDocker solves a lot of problems. I don't want to use it, but I want an easy, cohesive to all those problems! Like, each type of application I have to run in my fleet needs the right environment, with proper settings, packages, etc. And when a developer at the company needs to work on that service locally, they need a prod-like env spun up quickly and simply that they can easily work in. There's many ways to do this, like "one prod box and ssh" but they all have tradeoffs...
- bojo 6y agoMy team uses https://www.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/ https://www.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/ to solve what you explained there. Worth taking the time to go through if you want repeatable builds, runtimes, and environments (be they bare metal, VM, or even docker).