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Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by mitchellh on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @12:56PM (#4843767)
I'm here to answer any questions, if you have them. I'm really excited!

Fun fact, I first "launched" Vagrant on HN almost exactly 1000 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by blhack on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:18PM (#4843868)
http://vagrantup.com/

A bit of constructive criticism:

The "this changes everything" thing has become way, way, overplayed. I saw that and immediately rolled my eyes and stopped reading. It is about at the level of "code ninja" now.

Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by mitchellh on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:21PM (#4843888)
Thanks, I agree that I'm tired of that. The Vagrant website is being redesigned at the moment, so that'll disappear shortly.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by igorgue on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:48PM (#4844012)
But, and take this as a compliment, Vagrant does change everything. I'm so happy with vagrant now I can really say I have the same OS as my server in my laptop, I can easily switch between them and distribute the env between my peers.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by varikin on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @02:28PM (#4844194)
I agree, vagrant changes everything. At the moment, it is feasible for what we at work, yet. But I really want to use it more.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by RDDavies on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @10:17PM (#4846068)
As an avid supporter of the project, shoot an email if you want a Web dev to build it out for you :).
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by typicalrunt on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @05:23PM (#4845112)
You'd be surprised how many Enterprise companies are discovering Vagrant for the first time.

"You can have the same environment shared by everyone, and still look like Dev/QA/Production?" they ask.

It's amazing how far behind some companies are on the tech curve.

Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by petercooper on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:28PM (#4845819)
This isn't just a problem of a tech curve or conservatism but one of exposure and marketing. There are a lot of great tools and systems out there that are pretty in your face and obvious to use in certain niches yet.. you'll still run across good folks who are new to them. Always plenty of room to expand! (And that's a good thing ;-))
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by LeafStorm on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:15PM (#4843856)
Will it be possible to run development VMs in VirtualBox and production VMs in vSphere with the same Vagrantfile?
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by mitchellh on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:22PM (#4843889)
Yep.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by LeafStorm on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:38PM (#4843968)
Cool. I was considering using Vagrant for my current project at work, but our production VM infrastructure is on vSphere. Fortunately, we don't need to spin up new servers very often, so I just wrote a shell script to set everything up. It would be nice to use something a bit more battle-tested.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by adient on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @05:13PM (#4845074)
Puppet, chef, cfengine, etc...
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by aashay on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @02:22PM (#4844167)
Maybe this is a stupid question, but how do you pronounce HashiCorp? Is it "HAA-she" (rhymes with Kashi, like the cereal) or is it "HASH-i" (rhymes with "flashy")? I'm guessing it's the former since it'd match the Japanese pronunciation of your last name...?
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by sparkie on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @04:49PM (#4844969)
The "ha" sound is like in hash, but it's a distinct syllable on it's own, without the "sh". The second syllable is more like "she". The "ha" and "shi" have the same weight, so the whole word is 2 syllables and 2 morae, unlike either of the two examples you gave (which are 3 morae each.)

It usually means "bridge" (橋) in the name Hashimoto, but can also mean "chopsticks" (箸) or "edge" (端), with a slightly different pitch (largely indistinguishable for non-speakers)

Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by mitchellh on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @02:38PM (#4844253)
Rhymes with Kashi. ^_^
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by recursive on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @03:49PM (#4844646)
I'm outing myself as a philistine here, but how do you pronounce Kashi, if it doesn't rhyme with flashy?
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by yusefnapora on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @04:32PM (#4844876)
I think it rhymes with 'squashy' or 'washy'.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by aashay on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @04:36PM (#4844899)
Heh I probably should've gone with squashy or washy, but whenever I try to pick a rhyming word, I take the suffix syllable and prepend every letter in the alphabet until I come up with a word (aashi, bashi, cashi...). Kashi won... :\
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by rhizome on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:48PM (#4845862)
"Kashi" is pronounced like "flashy."
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by aashay on Thursday November 29, 2012 @03:40PM (#4850120)
Not using an American English accent. Kashi commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3vOZVUX454
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by rhizome on Thursday November 29, 2012 @06:34PM (#4850953)
Huh. About 10 years ago I worked with some people close to the company.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by stukpixel1 on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:09PM (#4843822)
Vagrant was amazingly helpful for my dev work this summer. Good to hear that you're making its development a priority.

I suppose my only question is if you plan on redesigning the Vagrant Docs website to be more like your attractive company landing page.

Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by mitchellh on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:15PM (#4843853)
The Vagrant website and the docs website is being completely re-designed by the same designer. It is going to look _very_ attractive. :)
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by dmackerman on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:21PM (#4843883)
Sorry, but that logo is so...1998.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by nirvana on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:25PM (#4843908)
That's what I love about it. It is a very classic logo. It evokes for me the idea that it was designed for a high tech company in a sci-fi film. Like Cyberdyne Systems or TYRELL Corp.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by semanticist on Thursday November 29, 2012 @01:17AM (#4846502)
I was instantly reminded of the OCP - Omni Consumer Products - logo from Robocop, and yes, I also like the slightly retro-future feel.

As much as it's entirely irrelevant to Vagrant-as-a-tool itself, I'd love to see a whole 'brand identity' in the same theme. It's a small thing, but it makes me slightly happier when the tools I use have a little bit of character to them. (See also: Github & Octocats)

Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by lyaunzbe on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:22PM (#4843893)
Congratulations Mitchell! I have always admired your work and it is inspiring to see an such an evolution in your project. Kudos to whoever designed the site, it looks amazing!
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by peralta on Thursday November 29, 2012 @06:30AM (#4847170)
First of all: congrats! I have been using Vagrant for a while now and it's how we manage the development and test environments (+200) in the company I work at (tuenti.com).

It is still not clear to me what the business model will be: will you be charging for selling extra providers (like VMWare Fusion), support contracts or ...?

Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by rbolkey on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:39PM (#4843975)
Congratulations as well! I've been using Vagrant mainly as a testing platform for authoring Puppet modules, and it's been wonderful.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by gerad on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:09PM (#4843821)
What's Vagrant?
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by dboat on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @02:17PM (#4844143)
vagrant is a tool for automatically setting up ("provisioning") new vms, according to scripts.

For instance, once you have scripts that download and compile apache, php, python, and perhaps mysql and postgres, you can automatically create a new virtual machine with any combination of those things at any time. Even your applications can be automatically installed in a fresh development environment with a single command. It's great for allowing new developers to get going in their own environment on a team project, and good for you individually, if you have a lot of different things on the go, you can keep them isolated in their own environments and easily setup and destroy them at any time.

The value is adds is great, although it also adds a bit of inconvenience. If your OS likes to update virtualbox a lot, vagrant might suddenly stop working until they update it. Developing the scripts to provision a vm can take quite a bit of time. If you're doing lengthy compiles in the process and those compiles are failing, it can be slow to find out why. Once you get a module down, and it's solid, it's very nice to have.

Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by varikin on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @02:32PM (#4844211)
The place it shines is setting up a complex dev environment and snapshotting that. Then share the snapshot to other developers. They then do something like "vagrant init complex-env", "vagrant up", "vagrant ssh" and they are working in the environment without worrying about Postgres or Apache or Java or anything like that when they just need to work on CSS and HTML.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by nigelk on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @09:51PM (#4846004)
Great news Mitch! Congratulations, and give us a yell if I can help with anything.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by joedevon on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:49PM (#4844025)
Congrats! I'll hit you up about potentially setting up a training in Los Angeles.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by ramereth on Thursday November 29, 2012 @03:46AM (#4846806)
Congrats on launching your new company! Best of luck!
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) by dfischer on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:23PM (#4845800)
Grats man. Happy for you.