Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by Argorak » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 4:59 PM UTC

Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)
hashicorp.com

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by trotsky » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 5:42 PM UTC

good luck! vagrant seems to fit a sweet spot in real world configuration management needs. i look forward to a future independent of oracle.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by ukd1 » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 5:53 PM UTC

Congratulations and best of luck Mitchell!

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by mitchellh » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 5:56 PM UTC

I'm here to answer any questions, if you have them. I'm really excited!

Fun fact, I first "launched" Vagrant on HN almost exactly 1000 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by gerad » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 6:09 PM UTC

mitchellh wrote: post #4

I'm here to answer any questions, if you have them. I'm really excited! Fun fact, I first "launched" Vagrant on HN almost exactly 1000 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

What's Vagrant?

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by stukpixel1 » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 6:09 PM UTC

mitchellh wrote: post #4

I'm here to answer any questions, if you have them. I'm really excited! Fun fact, I first "launched" Vagrant on HN almost exactly 1000 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

Vagrant was amazingly helpful for my dev work this summer. Good to hear that you're making its development a priority.

I suppose my only question is if you plan on redesigning the Vagrant Docs website to be more like your attractive company landing page.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by paulsmith » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 6:11 PM UTC

Can the first order of business be a renaming so the mascot of a useful and widely-used product isn't a homeless person?

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by mitchellh » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 6:13 PM UTC

paulsmith wrote: post #7

Can the first order of business be a renaming so the mascot of a useful and widely-used product isn't a homeless person?

The project won't be renamed, but it will be rebranded in the next few weeks. In the three years the project has existed I have only gotten two or three complaints about the mascot, but everyone has agreed that "Vagrant" itself is fine. Note that I've talked up to some pretty high levels of US government using Vagrant, and most are okay with it. One [fairly large/visible] organization within the US government has said they can't use it until the mascot is changed.

Vince the Vagrant is being retired.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by mitchellh » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 6:15 PM UTC

stukpixel1 wrote: post #6

mitchellh wrote: post #4

I'm here to answer any questions, if you have them. I'm really excited! Fun fact, I first "launched" Vagrant on HN almost exactly 1000 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

Vagrant was amazingly helpful for my dev work this summer. Good to hear that you're making its development a priority. I suppose my only question is if you plan on redesigning the Vagrant Docs website to be more like your attractive company landing page.

The Vagrant website and the docs website is being completely re-designed by the same designer. It is going to look _very_ attractive. :)

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by LeafStorm » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 6:15 PM UTC

mitchellh wrote: post #4

I'm here to answer any questions, if you have them. I'm really excited! Fun fact, I first "launched" Vagrant on HN almost exactly 1000 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

Will it be possible to run development VMs in VirtualBox and production VMs in vSphere with the same Vagrantfile?