I failed to explain what Docker / LxC do in my last post, so maybe I can make up for it here instead. I should probably start with a simple explanation of how Vagrant and Docker differ. Perhaps you’ll be reading this while you’re lining up at the Apple Store hoping to get your hands on some brand new fruity goodness? Vagrant has been on my “must get round to trying” list, so despite the fact that pretty much any solution will be “too much solution” for the specific use case I had in mind, it seems churlish not to try out another solution that I can, in time, most likely reject as pointless.
Earlier this week I described how I had dipped my toe in the waters of Docker and determined in the end that while the solution was pretty neat, it smacked of being too much solution for the problem at hand.Īfter the post was published, Twitter user Mark Snow ( wondered whether I’d tried Vagrant.
