{"id":646761,"date":"2013-03-14T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=620378"},"modified":"2013-03-14T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:00:20","slug":"vagrant-gets-busy-with-vmware-fusion-rackspace-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646761","title":{"rendered":"Vagrant gets busy with VMware Fusion, Rackspace support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vagrant<\/a>, a popular open source tool that automates the setup of virtual workspaces for software developers, is getting promised support for VMware\u00a0\"Mitchell<\/a>Fusion and for Rackspace Open Cloud with the\u00a0Vagrant 1.1. release<\/a>,\u00a0due on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Initially, Vagrant ran only on Oracle’s VirtualBox, but in November, Vagrant creator Mitchell Hashimoto said he planned to add support for more platforms including VMware Fusion. He launched a company,\u00a0Hashicorp<\/a>,\u00a0to do this and to offer\u00a0ancillary services for Vagrant.<\/p>\n

In February, Hashicorp started testing\u00a0a plugin for Amazon Web Services<\/a>\u00a0so that\u00a0developers using Vagrant for local configuration can also hook right into Amazon\u2019s public cloud. The new Rackspace support gives them a choice of clouds as well.<\/p>\n

For companies with many developers, configuring each machine for their work can take days or even weeks. Vagrant automates that workflow. As Hashimoto told me last fall, Vagrant makes it much easier to create isolated virtualized sandboxes for each project. Vagrant hooks both into VirtualBox (and now Fusion) and uses CFEngine, Chef or Puppet to set up the workspaces.<\/p>\n

Vagrant was initially a labor of love — or maybe of necessity — for Hashimoto, who built it for his own projects as a student at the University of Washington. But it took off beyond his expectations. Users include\u00a0DISQUS, BBC News, Mozilla, Yammer, Expedia, LivingSocial, Nokia,\u00a0and the New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

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