Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) • Hacker News Board

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#31

Post by kstenerud » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 7:43 PM UTC

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…

Maybe use a backpacker instead?

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#32

Post by pearkes » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 8:11 PM UTC

dreamdu5t wrote: post #20

Vagrant is a VirtualBox with a bunch of packages pre-installed? Am I correct?

Nope - Vagrant is a tool for managing VM providers.

Virtualbox has been the main provider it manages. Part of this announcement includes adding support for more providers!

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#33

Post by shizcakes » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 8:29 PM UTC

Where can I go to find more information about Vagrant's plans for supporting more hypervisors than Virtualbox?

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#34

Post by recursive » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 8:49 PM UTC

mitchellh wrote: post #30

aashay wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. ^_^

I'm outing myself as a philistine here, but how do you pronounce Kashi, if it doesn't rhyme with flashy?

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#35

Post by orangethirty » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 9:10 PM UTC

Use a backpacker for the mascot. It matches what the product does better. Homeless people dont have much stuff. Backpackers have and take their stuff everywhere. Which is the spirit of what you are doing. Have your stuff avaiable everywhere. So, a backpacker.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#36

Post by yusefnapora » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 9:32 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #34

mitchellh wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rhymes with Kashi. ^_^

I'm outing myself as a philistine here, but how do you pronounce Kashi, if it doesn't rhyme with flashy?

I think it rhymes with 'squashy' or 'washy'.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#37

Post by aashay » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 9:36 PM UTC

yusefnapora wrote: post #36

recursive wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm outing myself as a philistine here, but how do you pronounce Kashi, if it doesn't rhyme with flashy?

I think it rhymes with 'squashy' or 'washy'.

Heh I probably should've gone with squashy or washy, but whenever I try to pick a rhyming word, I take the suffix syllable and prepend every letter in the alphabet until I come up with a word (aashi, bashi, cashi...). Kashi won... :\

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#38

Post by sparkie » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 9:49 PM UTC

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...?

The "ha" sound is like in hash, but it's a distinct syllable on it's own, without the "sh". The second syllable is more like "she". The "ha" and "shi" have the same weight, so the whole word is 2 syllables and 2 morae, unlike either of the two examples you gave (which are 3 morae each.)

It usually means "bridge" (橋) in the name Hashimoto, but can also mean "chopsticks" (箸) or "edge" (端), with a slightly different pitch (largely indistinguishable for non-speakers)

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#39

Post by adient » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 10:13 PM UTC

LeafStorm wrote: post #17

mitchellh wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Puppet, chef, cfengine, etc...

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

#40

Post by typicalrunt » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 10:23 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #11

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

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.

You'd be surprised how many Enterprise companies are discovering Vagrant for the first time.

"You can have the same environment shared by everyone, and still look like Dev/QA/Production?" they ask.

It's amazing how far behind some companies are on the tech curve.