Ansible VS Vagrant

Compare Ansible vs Vagrant and see what are their differences.

Ansible

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com. (by ansible)

Vagrant

Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. (by hashicorp)
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Ansible Vagrant
388 114
60,761 25,780
1.2% 0.5%
9.8 9.2
about 8 hours ago about 14 hours ago
Python Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Ansible

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ansible. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-22.

Vagrant

Posts with mentions or reviews of Vagrant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ansible and Vagrant you can also consider the following projects:

Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init

pyinfra - pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python. It’s fast and scales from one server to thousands. Great for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.

cloudinit - Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization

Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework

GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

pexpect - A Python module for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal

psutil - Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python

ansible-pfsense - Ansible modules for managing pfSense firewalls

SaltStack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here: