Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environme... by webo on Saturday April 22, 2017 @11:35PM (#14176339)

There are other tools your team need as well: git, nvm, rvm, awscli, terraform, kubectl, etc. Vagrant helps with pre-installing all of that, whereas docker is mostly for running specific containers.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environme... by Terr_ on Sunday April 23, 2017 @12:58AM (#14176594)

Well, why not put those in docker too? The container you develop locally with doesn't have to be the same one that eventually ends up in production.

Here's a little demo designed for editing+testing a PHP library even if your local machine doesn't have anything more than Bash, Docker, and a text editor.

https://github.com/DHager/docker-php-library-demo

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environme... by sebringj on Monday April 24, 2017 @01:28PM (#14186172)

I'm not in devops so I probably shouldn't give advice. I'm just thinking of the time I had to help with a Wordpress plugin and it was pretty easy using Docker. The company I contract with uses Docker in production and they are a very well known host so I would imagine you would have all the tools you would need but I don't know specifics.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environme... by sawantuday on Sunday April 23, 2017 @01:38AM (#14176724)

Put those tools in docker containers and replace original command with alias for docker run 'command'.

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