hocus
Vagrant
hocus | Vagrant | |
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11 | 116 | |
3,122 | 25,884 | |
0.7% | 0.4% | |
8.9 | 9.0 | |
9 months ago | 3 days ago | |
TypeScript | Ruby | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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hocus
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We Replaced Firecracker with QEMU
I didn't want to go into all the technical details, but we have another write-up that goes into details about RAM management: https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus/blob/main/rfd/0003-worksp...
Other than making sure we release unused memory to the host, we didn't customize QEMU that much. Although we do have a cool layered storage solution - basically a faster alternative to QCOW2 that's also VMM independent. It's called overlaybd, and was created and implemented in Alibaba. That will probably be another blog post. https://github.com/containerd/overlaybd
- Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
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Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA
If you’d rather use a self-hosted alternative, we are building Hocus [0]. It’s still in alpha, but already supports prebuilds, VSCode, shared environment variables, and more.
[0] https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus
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[Self Hosted] Hocus - Alternative auto-hébergée à Gitpod et GitHub Codespaces, est maintenant publique sur GitHub
[https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus
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Hocus 0.2 Release: A Self-Hosted Alternative to Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces - Thank You for 2300+ Stars!
Check out our product launch post on Reddit here and the 0.2 release on GitHub here.
- Hocus 0.2 Released
- Show HN: Hocus – self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces using Firecracker
Vagrant
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How to Enable a Virtual Machine on Your Windows Laptop With Vagrant and Git Bash
Vagrant
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Ask HN: Please recommend how to manage personal serverss
Take a look at Vagrant! https://www.vagrantup.com/ In my admittedly limited understanding I believe it offers closer to a nix like reproducable rather than repeatable deployments.
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Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale
on the off chance one hasn't been tracking it, there were several "we don't need your stinking BuSL" projects when this drama first started:
https://github.com/opentofu#why-opentofu (Terraform)
https://github.com/openbao/openbao#readme (Vault)
and I know of several attempts at Vagrant <https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/forks> but I don't believe one of them has caught traction yet
There are also some who have talked about an "open Nomad" but since I don't play in that space I can't speak to it
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Ask HN: Cleanest way to manage Windows OS?
It sounds like you're using Nix as a sort of configuration management solution. CM just isn't worth it for managing a single desktop IMO. It triples the effort for whenever you need to add or remove a package, as you must now add that also to your nix configuration. You're supposed to be able to make that back up in time saved restoring to the next machine, but inevitably the next machine will be different enough that you'll have to edit it all anyway. In the end I just got tired of trying to manage my own machine with infrastructure as code (though in fairness I was using puppet at the time not nix).
I keep a git repository with all my dot files in it[1]. This seems to work the best. It has a Windows folder as well, and I copy that out whenever I need to set up Windows.
A lot of people like using WSL but I hate how it hogs on my memory. Hyper-V is a terrible virtualization engine for consumer-grade use cases because it can't thin provision RAM. If I need to use docker, I will spin up a small Linux VM using vagrant[3] with Virtualbox[4] and put Docker on there. Vagrant is an extremely underrated tool in my opinion, particularly in a Windows context.
I use scoop for packages. Typically I will scoop install msys2 and then pin it so that it doesn't get blown away by the next upgrade.
Then I basically do all of my development inside of msys2. I can get most things running in there without virtualization. In my case that means sbcl and roswell for common lisp, senpai for irc, and tmux and nvim for sanity. Msys2 uses the pacman package manager and this is good enough.
All In all, I set up my Windows machine affresh after a while of not using it and it took me about 3 hours. Most of that time was just getting through upgrades though, I felt like it was pretty fast.
1: https://git.sr.ht/~skin/dotfiles
2: https://www.msys2.org/
3: https://www.vagrantup.com/
4: https://www.virtualbox.org/
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A Developer's Journal: Simplifying the Twelve-Factor App
Tools like Docker and Vagrant can be used to allow local environments to mimic production environments.
- Is there any place where I can download an already configured Virtual machine? For example with Linux Ubuntu or Windows 10 preinstalled?
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UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
There's an open issue [1]. A scripting interface has since been added [2], and updated [3], so there's progress.
[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/12518
- Vagrant license changed to BUSL-1.1
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HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License
Someone should fork and maintain Vagrant with an MPL open source license:
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant
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Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/blob/v2.3.7/CHANGELOG.m... ?
The changelog lists both improvements and bug fixes and there's even apparently some effort to port it away from ruby: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/blob/v2.3.7/internal/cl...
What are some alternatives?
devpod - Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.
Packer - Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
swiss-chocolatey-lab - Create disposable dev environment VM's for GitHub repositories
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.
devpod-react-server-comp
QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
devpod-react-server-components - Demo app of React Server Components.
Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.
overlaybd - Overlaybd: a block based remote image format. The storage backend of containerd/accelerated-container-image.
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.