+1 on what rvs says. Vagrant seems to be a useful tool for operating system
unable to perform real work (no need to list them - we all know their names).
In the CI and, I presume most common dev environments, it just makes sense to
run native hypervisor, without going through the huge VirtualBox PITA.

Cos

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:38AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Jay Vyas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi bigtop.
> >
> > I've been using vagrant to build and spin up docker containers /run tasks.
> 
> Same here. Vagrant running CoreOS + Docker is my personal workflow
> these days.
> 
> > It's really convenient because it does stuff like ssh/ destroy/ share 
> > folders
> > (so the build artifact is available), etc for you..and is portable (it runs 
> > even
> > on windows or mac, by spinning up a lightweight lxc vm).
> >
> > Do we want to consider that as the way we do the dockerized ci ?
> > If so just point me to some patches and I can try to pitch in on the docker
> > infrastructure efforts in that capacity if so.
> 
> Docker is very much coming in. Not sure about Vagrant. Frankly the only
> reason I use it is because I'm stuck with a laptop incapable of running
> a real operating system well. On our slaves, though, we can simply run
> Docker natively. Not sure what the value of Vagrant would be.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.

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