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[[w:Vagrant_(software)|Vagrant]] is computer software for creating and configuring virtual development environments. It can be seen as a wrapper around virtualization software such as [[VirtualBox]], KVM, VMware and around configuration management software such as [[Ansible]], [[Chef]], Salt or [[Puppet]].
Vagrant uses '''provisioners''' like Ansible to do the 'work' and '''providers''' like VirtualBox to provide the host/platform. I prefer Ansible over Chef or Puppet, yet the latter are the biggest 'provisioners' for Vagrant. And, I prefer [[DigitalOcean]] to AWS and the former is not only available as a provider for Vagrantthrough a 3rd-party plugin<ref>https://github.com/devopsgroup-io/vagrant-digitalocean</ref>. Thus, we use Vagrant to build local development environments provided by VirtualBox, and provisioned by Ansible. We use the same Ansible playbooks to provision hosts at DigitalOcean
Vagrant was created by HashiCorp which is a leader in DevOps with a [https://www.hashicorp.com/tao.html Tao] which underlies their product portfolio and technology.