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== Vagrant (software) ==

'''Vagrant''' is an open-source tool for building and managing portable, reproducible development environments. It uses a declarative configuration file called a ''Vagrantfile'' to define the operating system, software, and network settings of a virtual machine or container, enabling developers to share identical environments across teams. Vagrant was originally created by [[Mitchell Hashimoto]] and later maintained by [[HashiCorp]].

== History ==

Mitchell Hashimoto began working on Vagrant in 2010 as a side project to simplify the creation of virtualized development environments using [[VirtualBox]]. The first public release, version 0.1, appeared in March 2010. In 2012, Hashimoto co‑founded [[HashiCorp]] to support Vagrant and other infrastructure tools. Version 1.0 was released in 2012, introducing support for [[VMware]] and [[AWS]] providers. HashiCorp later added [[Docker]] and [[Hyper‑V]] providers, and Vagrant became a standard tool in the DevOps toolkit. In 2020, HashiCorp revised the licensing to the Business Source License, though the source remains available.

== Features ==

* '''Declarative configuration''': The Vagrantfile describes the entire environment in a single text file, allowing version control and reproducibility.
* '''Provider plug‑ins''': Supports [[VirtualBox]], [[VMware]], [[Hyper‑V]], [[Docker]], [[libvirt]], and cloud providers such as [[AWS]] and [[Azure]].
* '''Provisioning''': Automates software installation and configuration using shell scripts, [[Ansible (software)|Ansible]], [[Chef (software)|Chef]], [[Puppet (software)|Puppet]], or [[Salt (software)|Salt]].
* '''Synced folders''': Shares files between host and guest systems, enabling development with native editors while running code inside the virtual environment.
* '''Networking''': Configures port forwarding, private networks, and public networks for access to services inside the guest.
* '''Multi‑machine management''': Allows defining several virtual machines within a single Vagrantfile, useful for multi‑tier application testing.
* '''Boxes''': Pre‑packaged base images (''boxes'') distributed via [[HashiCorp]]’s cloud repository or custom builders, simplifying environment setup.

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