Vagrant Cloud vs SmartOS: What are the differences?

What is Vagrant Cloud? Share, discover, and create Vagrant environments. Vagrant Cloud pairs with Vagrant to enable access, insight and collaboration across teams, as well as to bring exposure to community contributions and development environments.

What is SmartOS? Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor. It combines the capabilities you get from a lightweight container OS, optimized to deliver containers, with the robust security, networking and storage capabilities you’ve come to expect and depend on from a hardware hypervisor.

Vagrant Cloud and SmartOS belong to "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Vagrant Cloud are:

• Vagrant Share: A single command to share your local Vagrant environment to anyone in the world
• Box Distribution: Vagrant integration provides flexible versioning and support for private or community boxes
• Discover Boxes: Start new projects faster using the right box. Find trusted and top-used community boxes

On the other hand, SmartOS provides the following key features:

• Secure containers
• Full isolation per container in a multi-tenant environment
• Built-in networking