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OpenStack vs Vagrant: What are the differences?
Developers describe OpenStack as "Open source software for building private and public clouds". OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface. On the other hand, Vagrant is detailed 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.
OpenStack belongs to "Open Source Cloud" category of the tech stack, while Vagrant can be primarily classified under "Virtual Machine Management".
Some of the features offered by OpenStack are:
- Compute
- Storage
- Networking
On the other hand, Vagrant provides the following key features:
- Boxes
- Up And SSH
- Synced Folders
"Private cloud" is the top reason why over 35 developers like OpenStack, while over 354 developers mention "Development environments" as the leading cause for choosing Vagrant.
Vagrant is an open source tool with 18.6K GitHub stars and 3.74K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vagrant's open source repository on GitHub.
Shopify, SendGrid, and Starbucks are some of the popular companies that use Vagrant, whereas OpenStack is used by PayPal, HubSpot, and Wikipedia. Vagrant has a broader approval, being mentioned in 802 company stacks & 475 developers stacks; compared to OpenStack, which is listed in 66 company stacks and 50 developer stacks.
Pros of OpenStack
- Private cloud54
- Avoid vendor lock-in37
- Flexible in use22
- Industry leader6
- Supported by many companies in top5004
- Robust architecture4
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 OpenStack
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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