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What happened to "one thing and well"? Vagrant is exceptional in what it does but I can't see why anybody should use it as their deployment tool among myriad of

What happened to "one thing and well"? Vagrant is exceptional in what it does but I can't see why anybody should use it as their deployment tool among myriad of deployment tools.

mitchellh 12y ago
I can understand the fear/confusion here. "vagrant push" is glue to real deployment tools. For example, Vagrant itself would never itself contain the full logic of something like Capistrano. But "vagrant push" will _execute_ Capistrano. The idea is that Vagrant is a single workflow for development environments. "vagrant up" to work on any application, "vagrant share" to collaborate on any application, "vagrant push" to deploy (or start to deploy) any application. EDIT: @ossreality: Your comments are showing up as dead. But I want to respond to you. As I mentioned here, `vagrant push` is glue to real deployment tools. How are you deploying your complex application now? You would hook up `vagrant push` to that. "vagrant push" itself is not a deployment framework.
- ossreality 12y ago
  How does this work for any real project of any real size? Our service is a mirage. It's comprised of half a dozen microservices, most of which are developed one-at-a-time, but which must all be deployed in order to be a functional real end-service.
- ossreality 12y ago
  How does this work for any real project of any real size? Our service is a mirage. It's comprised of half a dozen microservices, most of which are developed one-at-a-time, but which must all be deployed in order to be a functional real end-service.
- kasabali 12y ago
  Thanks Michell! I was worried Vagrant started heading in a different direction especially after reading the "This is a historic day for Vagrant" paragraph. Thanks for clearing it up.
coldtea 12y ago
>What happened to "one thing and well"? 1) It was never that great an idea in the first place. It's OK-ish for command line, text based interfaces, but its tedious and limiting for more complicated stuff and it results in tools that lack a coherent story to work together, especially if each of the tools is made by a different entity, with different APIs, flags, etc. 2) It's still here for Vagrant. Vagrant doesn't try to do the deployment. Just provides a command that can call your preferred deployment tool that just does "deployment well".
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What happened to "one thing and well"? Vagrant is exceptional in what it does but I can't see why anybody should use it as their deployment tool among myriad of deployment tools.

mitchellh 12y ago

I can understand the fear/confusion here. "vagrant push" is glue to real deployment tools. For example, Vagrant itself would never itself contain the full logic of something like Capistrano. But "vagrant push" will _execute_ Capistrano. The idea is that Vagrant is a single workflow for development environments. "vagrant up" to work on any application, "vagrant share" to collaborate on any application, "vagrant push" to deploy (or start to deploy) any application. EDIT: @ossreality: Your comments are showing up as dead. But I want to respond to you. As I mentioned here, `vagrant push` is glue to real deployment tools. How are you deploying your complex application now? You would hook up `vagrant push` to that. "vagrant push" itself is not a deployment framework.

ossreality 12y ago
How does this work for any real project of any real size? Our service is a mirage. It's comprised of half a dozen microservices, most of which are developed one-at-a-time, but which must all be deployed in order to be a functional real end-service.
ossreality 12y ago
How does this work for any real project of any real size? Our service is a mirage. It's comprised of half a dozen microservices, most of which are developed one-at-a-time, but which must all be deployed in order to be a functional real end-service.
kasabali 12y ago
Thanks Michell! I was worried Vagrant started heading in a different direction especially after reading the "This is a historic day for Vagrant" paragraph. Thanks for clearing it up.

coldtea 12y ago

>What happened to "one thing and well"? 1) It was never that great an idea in the first place. It's OK-ish for command line, text based interfaces, but its tedious and limiting for more complicated stuff and it results in tools that lack a coherent story to work together, especially if each of the tools is made by a different entity, with different APIs, flags, etc. 2) It's still here for Vagrant. Vagrant doesn't try to do the deployment. Just provides a command that can call your preferred deployment tool that just does "deployment well".

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