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Vagrant vs XenServer: What are the differences?
Developers describe Vagrant as "A tool for building and distributing development environments". Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. On the other hand, XenServer is detailed as "An open source virtualization platform". It is a leading virtualization management platform optimized for application, desktop and server virtualization infrastructures. It is used in the world's largest clouds and enterprises.
Vagrant and XenServer belong to "Virtual Machine Management" category of the tech stack.
Vagrant is an open source tool with 18.7K GitHub stars and 3.77K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vagrant's open source repository on GitHub.
Airbnb, Shopify, and Coursera are some of the popular companies that use Vagrant, whereas XenServer is used by Infoxchange, GameDuell, and Leonis Holding. Vagrant has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1051 company stacks & 3207 developers stacks; compared to XenServer, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
Pros of Vagrant
- Development environments352
- Simple bootstraping290
- Free237
- Boxes139
- Provisioning130
- Portable84
- Synced folders81
- Reproducible69
- Ssh51
- Very flexible44
- Works well, can be replicated easily with other devs5
- Easy-to-share, easy-to-version dev configuration5
- Great3
- Just works3
- Quick way to get running2
- DRY - "Do Not Repeat Yourself"1
- Container Friendly1
- What is vagrant?1
- Good documentation1
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Cons of Vagrant
- Can become v complex w prod. provisioner (Salt, etc.)2
- Multiple VMs quickly eat up disk space2
- Development environment that kills your battery1
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