What is your opinion about vagrant?

Question

Web development

Hello. I read about vagrant, everything seems to be not so bad, but of course, in my opinion, it's not perfect. Firstly, it’s hard to install the first time, I had to rebuild the car several times. some settings did not turn out very well, but I think that this is not really a problem. It's great when the working environment unrolls automatically. Just to be able to prepare this environment by hand, and not with the help of puphpet.com.
In general, I would like to hear for whom it is really useful?
Or just came up with it to work from under Windows? I remember earlier at the university, in order to deploy LAMP, they installed a virtual machine and worked right in it, quite hard and slow!
And what about the combat server? It is possible to deploy a configuration from vagrant to it (we won’t put VB there), or is it again necessary to use handles and not everything is automated by vagrant?

Answer 1

In principle, I don’t start a project without vagrant/docker.
A project is not only your code, but also the environment in which it runs. Let's say you need to look at something in your old project, but at the moment the functionality that you used there is outdated and in order to raise the old environment you will have to spoil the current one.
For combat servers, systems such as puppet, ansible, chef, salt ... are used with a svagrant, they also work great.
Vagrant should not be used when the vagrant config is larger than your project and you will not support it.

Answer 2

I didn't see the point in it at all. I develop sites under XAMPP, node js is installed separately if you need to write something on it. Less problems with transferring the project to the server later.