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Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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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

http://vagrantup.com/

A bit of constructive criticism:

The "this changes everything" thing has become way, way, overplayed. I saw that and immediately rolled my eyes and stopped reading. It is about at the level of "code ninja" now.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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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. :)

Sorry, but that logo is so...1998.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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post #11

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

http://vagrantup.com/ A bit of constructive criticism: The "this changes everything" thing has become way, way, overplayed. I saw that and immediately rolled my eyes and stopped reading. It is about at the level of "code ninja" now.

Thanks, I agree that I'm tired of that. The Vagrant website is being redesigned at the moment, so that'll disappear shortly.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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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?

Yep.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#15

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

Congratulations Mitchell! I have always admired your work and it is inspiring to see an such an evolution in your project. Kudos to whoever designed the site, it looks amazing!

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Sorry, but that logo is so...1998.

That's what I love about it. It is a very classic logo. It evokes for me the idea that it was designed for a high tech company in a sci-fi film. Like Cyberdyne Systems or TYRELL Corp.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yep.

Cool. I was considering using Vagrant for my current project at work, but our production VM infrastructure is on vSphere. Fortunately, we don't need to spin up new servers very often, so I just wrote a shell script to set everything up. It would be nice to use something a bit more battle-tested.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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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 sai…

Vince has a really good 401k plan, despite his scruff look. He's going to be sipping drinks on a Caribbean beach before we know it!

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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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

Congratulations as well! I've been using Vagrant mainly as a testing platform for authoring Puppet modules, and it's been wonderful.
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