i guess that makes sense. fyi, there is one advantage, which is that vagrant does some magic for you. - shares folders for containers - ssh's into containers - destroys containers
but yes, the main advantage is platform neutrality of the build tooling for macs/windows. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Evans Ye <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folk, > > I've now also playing around with vagrant + docker, too. > Just as Roman said that for ci builds we probably don't need vagrant being > involved since builds are already running on linux environment. > But for bigtop-deploy, I think vagrant comes with it's value which allows > users to spin up a hadoop cluster on any kind of host like OS X and > windows. > With docker coming in now we can provision bigtop cluster on containers > instead of VMs. > This can speed up the whole provisioning process and reduce the unnecessary > hypervisor overhead. > I'm now trying to make some progress on provisioning bigtop cluster using > vagrant + docker > and will start to check in some jiras in my spare cycles. > > BR, > Evans Ye > -- jay vyas
