Laravel Homestead vs Azure Virtual Machines Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Laravel Homestead

Stacks278

Followers343

Votes33

GitHub Stars3.9K

Forks1.4K

Azure Virtual Machines

Stacks88

Followers82

Votes7

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.

Detailed Comparison

Laravel Homestead	Azure Virtual Machines
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.	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.
Ubuntu 14.04;PHP 5.6;HHVM;Nginx;MySQL;Postgres;Node (With Bower, Grunt, and Gulp);Redis;Memcached;Beanstalkd;Laravel Envoy;Fabric + HipChat Extension	Keep your budget in check with low-cost, per-second billing. You only pay for the compute time you use; Scale from one to thousands of VM instances in minutes with VM Scale Sets; Encrypt sensitive data, protect VMs from malicious threats, secure network traffic, and meet regulatory and compliance requirements; Choose Linux or Windows. Deploy your own VM image or download images from the Azure Marketplace
Statistics
GitHub Stars 3.9K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 1.4K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 278	Stacks 88
Followers 343	Followers 82
Votes 33	Votes 7
Pros & Cons
Pros 19 Easy to setup 13 Native enviroment 1 Cool if you finally get it set up 4 Win10 by night Devs	Pros 1 Low Cost 1 Free Tier 1 Scalability 1 Auto Scale 1 Backed by Azure
Integrations
Laravel Vagrant Vagrant Cloud	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Laravel Homestead, Azure Virtual Machines?

HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)

HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the flexibility that PHP developers are accustomed to. To date, HHVM (and its predecessor HPHPc before it) has realized over a 9x increase in web request throughput and over a 5x reduction in memory consumption for Facebook compared with the PHP 5.2 engine + APC.

GraalVM

An ecosystem and shared runtime offering performance advantages not only to JVM-based languages such as Java, Scala, Groovy, and Kotlin, but also to programming languages as JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and R. Additionally, it enables the execution of native code on the JVM via LLVM front-end.