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> Vagrant has been a much bigger time sink for me than benefit. This has been my experience as well... and I would really, really like to have a system in plac

by Quequau 12y ago

> Vagrant has been a much bigger time sink for me than benefit. This has been my experience as well... and I would really, really like to have a system in place where I could painlessly spin up VMs to do development in, so that I could leave my Mac as is.

mateuszf 12y ago
It's called Docker.
- keslag 12y ago
  Docker just spins up a VM on OS X with boot2docker so you don't get any real benefit here.
  - ithkuil 12y ago
    Yep, although it creates only one you can run a bunch of containers in it. It feels almost as a native support, but the hack is betrayed by the networking setup. I wish it would be possible to just expose ports on the real localhost.
    - keslag 12y ago
      Absolutely, I should have specified 'a single vm' in my response. I didn't understand that when I was first trying to understand boot2docker, and now I'm using imprecise language to help confuse others. Thanks for clarifying.
- Jean-Philipe 12y ago
  Docker is not a VM and only works on Linux.
  - billdstrong 12y ago
    boot2docker is a commandline interface to docker that works on Windows, Mac and Linux. (Maybe *BSDs too.) On non Linux systems, it downoads a prebuilt VM, and runs it with Virtualbox. This is how Docker currently works on other OSes.
jtreminio 12y ago
You might be interested in my FOSS that aims to do just that: https://puphpet.com https://puphpet.com
matt_s 12y ago
Build a custom box for Vagrant. I did this and now can spin up a CentOS 7 image with Apache, MySQL (Mariadb), RVM (ruby version manager) and a bunch of utilities (wget, curl, git, etc.) in a matter of minutes. I wrote up a how-to on my blog (in profile). I've tried Puppet but it just seemed like more trouble - that would be useful for 10's or 100's of nodes. As an example, I wanted to try out Ghost to see if I liked that better than Jekyll/Octopress for a blog, so after 'vagrant init centos7' I had a VM running and I could screw up a ton of stuff then and not care.

by Quequau 12y ago

mateuszf 12y ago

It's called Docker.

keslag 12y ago
Docker just spins up a VM on OS X with boot2docker so you don't get any real benefit here.
- ithkuil 12y ago
  Yep, although it creates only one you can run a bunch of containers in it. It feels almost as a native support, but the hack is betrayed by the networking setup. I wish it would be possible to just expose ports on the real localhost.
  - keslag 12y ago
    Absolutely, I should have specified 'a single vm' in my response. I didn't understand that when I was first trying to understand boot2docker, and now I'm using imprecise language to help confuse others. Thanks for clarifying.
Jean-Philipe 12y ago
Docker is not a VM and only works on Linux.
- billdstrong 12y ago
  boot2docker is a commandline interface to docker that works on Windows, Mac and Linux. (Maybe *BSDs too.) On non Linux systems, it downoads a prebuilt VM, and runs it with Virtualbox. This is how Docker currently works on other OSes.

jtreminio 12y ago

You might be interested in my FOSS that aims to do just that: https://puphpet.com https://puphpet.com

matt_s 12y ago

Build a custom box for Vagrant. I did this and now can spin up a CentOS 7 image with Apache, MySQL (Mariadb), RVM (ruby version manager) and a bunch of utilities (wget, curl, git, etc.) in a matter of minutes. I wrote up a how-to on my blog (in profile). I've tried Puppet but it just seemed like more trouble - that would be useful for 10's or 100's of nodes. As an example, I wanted to try out Ghost to see if I liked that better than Jekyll/Octopress for a blog, so after 'vagrant init centos7' I had a VM running and I could screw up a ton of stuff then and not care.