A few notes on this Vagrant v. Docker discussion...
Vagrant is *specifically* built for development/testing environments.
It's not recommended to use in Production. Take a look at how it's
advertised...it's "Development environments made easy":
https://www.vagrantup.com/ Vagrant is also a level of abstraction
above Docker. It's about providing a "repeatable" virtual machine
environment, and you can do so using Puppet (which is what
vagrant-dspace uses), Chef, Ansible, or even Docker itself! That's
right, Vagrant actually has a "Docker Provisioner" which lets you spin
up a VM, auto-install Docker and one (or more) Docker containers.
http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/docker.html
Docker on the other hand is built more for Continuous Integration /
Production environments. You could use it for a development
environment, but it's more ideal for CI. That being said, you could use
it *with* Vagrant...where you actually build a Docker container for your
Production environment, but have the option of starting it via Vagrant
for development / testing work.
Here's an excellent answer to this question from the guy who wrote
Vagrant on why comparing Vagrant to Docker is a bit like apples vs.
oranges: http://stackoverflow.com/a/21314566/3750035
My personal opinion here is that Docker is worth learning/using, IF you
plan to use it in your Production environment. However, if you have no
plans to use Docker in Production, then you may find it is easier
to"mimic" your existing production server by just using Vagrant.
Currently, we do NOT have a centrally managed DSpace Docker container
(so anything out there is third-party built...so mileage may vary). But
we do obviously provide vagrant-dspace (which is maintained by
Committers, as several of us use it for development/testing of DSpace).
https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-dspace
- Tim
On 6/23/2015 4:57 PM, Monika C. Mevenkamp wrote:
Hi
my boss discovered a dspace docker
so which one should I do - docker or vagrant ?
They sound awfully alike
the host can connect to things : tomcat / ssh / ...
files can be shared between host and vagrant/docker guest
it appears to be easy to hand a ‘vagrant’ or a ‘docker’ to another
developer
so what’s the deal ?
why one over the other ?
Monika
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Monika Mevenkamp
Digital Repository Infrastructure Developer
Phone: 609-258-4161
333C 701 Carnegie, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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