[colug-432] 2015-10-03 OLF Scribbles: Kubernetes; Katello, Foreman, Vagrant, Ansible, Cattle Not Pets

[Matthew Hyclak]

It appears that Vagrant has been supplanted by Otto.

https://hashicorp.com/blog/otto.html

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote:

>
> On Oct 4, 2015 7:19 PM, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> > Vagrant
> >     creates and configures VMs
> >     much support for VirtualBox VMs
> >     little support for KVM/QEMU VMs
> >     only for development and testing
> >     not for production
> >         why??? is it too insecure?
>
> Vagrant is usually used with VirtualBox to run a VM on a personal
> computer. VirtualBox is neat, but there are better solutions for running
> VMs in a production environment.
>
> I think there's a plugin to allow Vagrant to speak to VMware but I still
> wouldn't use Vagrant for production workloads.
>
> Vagrant can be super slow. It can be fiddly with VM settings.
>
> We use Vagrant heavily to build and test Puppet modules. We then have our
> developers use Vagrant boxes configured with these same Puppet modules.
> This ensures that the apps they develop are running in an environment very
> similar to our production servers (which are also built using these same
> Puppet modules).
>
> The Vagrant presentation from OLF will be reprised at the October COLUG
> meeting. October 21. Stay tuned for the official announcement.
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
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