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Vagrant vs PuPHPet: What are the differences?
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.
What is PuPHPet? A simple GUI to set up virtual machines for Web development. It is a web application that allows you to easily and quickly generate custom Vagrant and Puppet controlled virtual machines.
Vagrant and PuPHPet can be categorized as "Virtual Machine Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by Vagrant are:
- Boxes
- Up And SSH
- Synced Folders
On the other hand, PuPHPet provides the following key features:
- Easily share with friends and coworkers
- Deploy to any server in the world
- Open sourced, MIT licensed
Vagrant and PuPHPet are both open source tools. Vagrant with 18.9K GitHub stars and 3.8K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than PuPHPet with 3.92K GitHub stars and 700 GitHub forks.
Pros of PuPHPet
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 PuPHPet
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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