Vagrant VS Ganeti

Vagrant

• Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2024

  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

• Ask HN: Cleanest way to manage Windows OS?
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024

  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/

• A Developer's Journal: Simplifying the Twelve-Factor App
  9 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2023

  Tools like Docker and Vagrant can be used to allow local environments to mimic production environments.

• UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2023

  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

• HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License
  25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023

  Someone should fork and maintain Vagrant with an MPL open source license:

  https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant

• Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
  18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023

  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...

  18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023

  It's a lot older but I would say Vagrant intersects with this space

  https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant

  Possibly devenv, as well.. Though I haven't personally tried it

  https://devenv.sh/

• Best virtualization solution with Ubuntu 22.04
  8 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 28 May 2023

  If you want an all around easy to use tool that can manager containers (create on the fly, delete when unnecessary, etc.) look into vagrant. There are also options like xen and virtualbox but they are not so lightweight. All of them are in ubuntu repositories.

• How to set up an Nginx Web Server in Ubuntu Virtual Machine Using Vagrant
  3 projects | dev.to | 5 May 2023

  Similarly, download and install Vagrant by following the instructions provided on the official Vagrant documentation.

• OrbStack – Docker Desktop and Colima Alternative for macOS
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2023

  This looks awesome. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon right now is a bit painful. If this really does provide semi performant x86 Linux emulation and there was a Vagrant Provider plugin then this would easily be the defacto tool for dev / testing VMs on macOS.

  https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/tree/main/plugins/provi...

  Same probably applies to hashicorp Packer.

  Every tool I have tried like Parallels and VMWare Fusion 13 Pro says that nested virtualization for windows is not possible. If this is possible with Orb at some point i’d pay for it.

  I often want to test a Windows VM with Docker installed into WSL2 and this becomes a nightmare now on Apple Silicon.

  Also I wonder what possibility this opens up for an improved toolchain to develop stuff like Asahi Linux by bridging macOS native tooling and Linux emulation to write and test code without rebooting or using two machines.

  Amazing work. Why can’t Apple, Vzmware, parallels or someone else do all of this when a single developer can. Sad.

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