2 years ago

Category: Software, Docker, puppet, artificial-intelligence

Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard: With the huge growth in virtualization and cloud computing, there has also been a corresponding increase in the average number of virtual machines (VM) that today’s admin has to manage. Manually creating a full VM on today’s virtualizers, like VMWare and Hyper-V, is a painful process because these products take a snapshot of the entire machine configuration, and then replicate this to another machine.

And Docker and Vagrant are two such solutions that take different roads to solving the limitations of the traditional VM.

However, Vagrant is still a virtual machine, albeit one with more powerful features than the bog-standard VM tools out there; for instance you can integrate Vagrant with CM tools such as Puppet and Chef to provision your own VM setups and configs.

In such a scenario, Vagrant is used to create a base VM, then when you need to create different configs that all utilize this base VM, use Docker to provision and create different lightweight versions.