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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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Post by igorgue »

mitchellh wrote: post #13
blhack wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But, and take this as a compliment, Vagrant does change everything. I'm so happy with vagrant now I can really say I have the same OS as my server in my laptop, I can easily switch between them and distribute the env between my peers.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by joedevon »

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

Congrats! I'll hit you up about potentially setting up a training in Los Angeles.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by dboat »

gerad wrote: post #5
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?

vagrant is a tool for automatically setting up ("provisioning") new vms, according to scripts.

For instance, once you have scripts that download and compile apache, php, python, and perhaps mysql and postgres, you can automatically create a new virtual machine with any combination of those things at any time. Even your applications can be automatically installed in a fresh development environment with a single command. It's great for allowing new developers to get going in their own environment on a team project, and good for you individually, if you have a lot of different things on the go, you can keep them isolated in their own environments and easily setup and destroy them at any time.

The value is adds is great, although it also adds a bit of inconvenience. If your OS likes to update virtualbox a lot, vagrant might suddenly stop working until they update it. Developing the scripts to provision a vm can take quite a bit of time. If you're doing lengthy compiles in the process and those compiles are failing, it can be slow to find out why. Once you get a module down, and it's solid, it's very nice to have.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by aashay »

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

Maybe this is a stupid question, but how do you pronounce HashiCorp? Is it "HAA-she" (rhymes with Kashi, like the cereal) or is it "HASH-i" (rhymes with "flashy")? I'm guessing it's the former since it'd match the Japanese pronunciation of your last name...?

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by varikin »

igorgue wrote: post #21
mitchellh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

But, and take this as a compliment, Vagrant does change everything. I'm so happy with vagrant now I can really say I have the same OS as my server in my laptop, I can easily switch between them and distribute the env between my peers.

I agree, vagrant changes everything. At the moment, it is feasible for what we at work, yet. But I really want to use it more.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by varikin »

dboat wrote: post #25
gerad wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's Vagrant?

vagrant is a tool for automatically setting up ("provisioning") new vms, according to scripts. For instance, once you have scripts that download and compile apache, php, python, and perhaps mysql and postgres, you can automatically create a new virtual machine with any combination of those things at any time. Even your applications can be automatically installed in a fresh development environment with a single comman…

The place it shines is setting up a complex dev environment and snapshotting that. Then share the snapshot to other developers. They then do something like "vagrant init complex-env", "vagrant up", "vagrant ssh" and they are working in the environment without worrying about Postgres or Apache or Java or anything like that when they just need to work on CSS and HTML.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by nicholassmith »

mitchellh wrote: post #8
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 sai…

I actually like Vince the Vagrant as a mascot, but I can see why it could be troublesome.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by mitchellh »

aashay wrote: post #26
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

Maybe this is a stupid question, but how do you pronounce HashiCorp? Is it "HAA-she" (rhymes with Kashi, like the cereal) or is it "HASH-i" (rhymes with "flashy")? I'm guessing it's the former since it'd match the Japanese pronunciation of your last name...?

Rhymes with Kashi. ^_^
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