Concourse vs Vagrant: What are the differences?
What is Concourse? Pipeline-based CI system written in Go. Concourse's principles reduce the risk of switching to and from Concourse, by encouraging practices that decouple your project from your CI's little details, and keeping all configuration in declarative files that can be checked into version control.
What is Vagrant? 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.
Concourse can be classified as a tool in the "Continuous Integration" category, while Vagrant is grouped under "Virtual Machine Management".
"Real pipelines" is the top reason why over 8 developers like Concourse, while over 354 developers mention "Development environments" as the leading cause for choosing Vagrant.
Concourse and Vagrant are both open source tools. Vagrant with 18.6K GitHub stars and 3.74K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Concourse with 3.99K GitHub stars and 482 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Vagrant has a broader approval, being mentioned in 802 company stacks & 478 developers stacks; compared to Concourse, which is listed in 18 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.