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Vagrant vs Xen Orchestra: What are the differences?
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; Xen Orchestra: The Web Interface for XenServer. It provides a web based UI for the management of XenServer installations without requiring any agent or extra software on your hosts nor VMs.
Vagrant and Xen Orchestra 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, Xen Orchestra provides the following key features:
- Xen management
- Easy-to-use
- Fast
Vagrant and Xen Orchestra are both open source tools. Vagrant with 18.8K GitHub stars and 3.78K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Xen Orchestra with 233 GitHub stars and 89 GitHub forks.
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 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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