Is Vagrant a good replacement for openserver (or denwer)?

Question

Web development

Now I'm using openserver. About once a week I start a new site and use it very well. convenient: created a folder, restarted openserver, done.
Now I need to switch to mac and need to find a replacement OS. Moreover, I want not just a replacement, but something higher. Discovered Vagrant. I watch tutorials, read about him, and now I think. This is what happens, for each new site with it you will need to download an image for virtualbox? It's very hard to do. Hence the question, is it possible to use one operating system image in a vagrant for all developed sites?

Answer 1

There is a Vagrant machine constructor, https://puphpet.com/
Choose everything you need, it gives you the archive, unpacked it into any folder, made it in the vagrant up console, and it will put everything that you have chosen there.

Answer 2

Is Vagrant a good replacement for openserver (or denwer)?

You can't even compare them. Vagrant is immeasurably better.
Each site has its own virtual machine.
But if the OS is the same, you won’t have to re-download the image.

Answer 3

You don't need to download anything there. One image can be used for any number of sites.
If you like sugar, then you can use Homestead .

Answer 4

Virtual hosts on Apache are placed crookedly. I myself work on Yii2 Advanced (PHP) and even now I can not find a way out. PuPHPet does not set up either PHPMyAdmin or the admin panel on this framework. There are few ready-made solutions, many on nginx. Other author's scripts are simply in sh format, without any instructions. But in general, maybe someday such tools will become a replacement for assemblies.