Vagrantfile gives you a repeatable and portable environment with just a few lines of configuration. Product demo? Pre-configured local Kubernetes? Clean build environment? Pre-cooked clean setups for 3rd party software projects? Everything is possible with just vagrant up -> vagrant ssh -> vagrant halt/destroy. There is no simple alternative.
I think this is just the cloud-hosted registry - the good old cli remains available, albeit under the non-free Business Source License: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant
I replaced my vagrant usage with lima-vm due to the license change years ago and I'm happy with it https://lima-vm.io/
Lima is a great tool for simple quick or for automated repeatable virtual environments!
Lima give you a VM.
Vagrantfile gives you a repeatable and portable environment with just a few lines of configuration. Product demo? Pre-configured local Kubernetes? Clean build environment? Pre-cooked clean setups for 3rd party software projects? Everything is possible with just vagrant up -> vagrant ssh -> vagrant halt/destroy. There is no simple alternative.
How exactly did the license change affected your particular use-case?
I think this is just the cloud-hosted registry - the good old cli remains available, albeit under the non-free Business Source License: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant
It's like Docker without public registries, nobody is going to use it
"Docker for VMs" it's what we used before docker.
Docker is not a replacement though, you can't use Docker as a VM, not without workarounds, limitations and caveats.
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