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Azure Virtual Machines vs Laravel Homestead: What are the differences?
Developers describe Azure Virtual Machines as "It provides on-demand, high-scale, secure, virtualized infrastructure *". You can create Linux and Windows virtual machines. It gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions—development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter. It’s the freedom of open-source software configured the way you need it. On the other hand, *Laravel Homestead** is detailed as "The official Laravel local development environment (Vagrant box)". Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant "box" that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. Homestead runs on any Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and includes the Nginx web server, PHP 5.6, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, and all of the other goodies you need to develop amazing Laravel applications.
Azure Virtual Machines and Laravel Homestead belong to "Virtual Machine" category of the tech stack.
Laravel Homestead is an open source tool with 3.2K GitHub stars and 1.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Laravel Homestead's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Laravel Homestead has a broader approval, being mentioned in 29 company stacks & 136 developers stacks; compared to Azure Virtual Machines, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
Pros of Azure Virtual Machines
- Free Tier1
- Flexible1
- Reliable1
- Backed by Azure1
- Auto Scale1
- Scalability1
- Low Cost1
Pros of Laravel Homestead
- Easy to setup19
- Native enviroment13
- Cool if you finally get it set up 4 Win10 by night Devs1