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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]].
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 available as a provider for Vagrant. Thus, we use Vagrant to build local development environments provided by VirtualBox, and provisioned by Ansible.
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.