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As the creator of Vagrant, I just wanted to say thank you for using the software. 5-6 years is no joke! I'm glad/hopeful that the project had a net positive impact for you during that time. :)

I won't attempt to hijack this thread or use it for personal motives to convince you to stick with it. I understand technologies change, requirements change, and choices change. The only thing I ask is if you can find the time to email me (mitchell@hashicorp.com) with your pain points so we can look to see how we can improve things in the future.

And the only other comment I'll make is that at HashiCorp we have full time staff on Vagrant and have continued to drill down issue counts through the year. So if you are a Vagrant user: fear not, it is something we continue to deeply care about.

Thank you!

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Mitchell,

It may not have been obvious in the original question but, believe me, I wholly appreciate the work that has gone into Vagrant and it truly is a great piece of software that we have happily supported over the years (with the Fusion plugin).

I believe that some of the challenges are not necessarily with Vagrant, but the combination of distros, build tools (Chef / Ansible -- we're still with Chef) various cookbooks / versions vs. roll your own and, perhaps most important, supporting Fusion/Parallels and Virtualbox with all of their idiosyncrasies. Add to that the introduction of "new" technologies such as containers etc.

The question was not in any intended as a slight against Vagrant, but more of a question of how people are handling their development environments today and if Vagrant is still a big part of their processes or not.

We still love Vagrant and it's promise as well as other Hashicorp products (we use Terraform and are in the process of switching to Vault) so we believe in the tools. Just had a rough 6 months or so of supporting Vagrant in our development processes (for some reason -- could be us!) and thought I'd ask the community.

First off, thanks for your work on Vagrant. I've had my frustrations with it, but over the years it has been an invaluable tool.

That brings me to this: I wish I could pay for Vagrant - not just the VMWare Fusion plugin, but a fully supported configuration of your choosing. I would happily migrate our dev environment to that configuration, and spend spend several hundred dollars per user per year year on Vagrant if I thought it would work more reliably as a result.

we switched to a docker environment and the benefits are immense, starting from bootstrap to boot time. Docker-compose makes it easy to pull 3rd party deps that just work, instead of configuring them in one VM. Of course docker has it's downsides, but maybe vagrant could incorporate docker and start moving away from the one-VM principle?

Seems docker compose is the slightly better way to go.

I don't docker for my actual code , but it's handy for the local DB and redis type problems.

Actual language changes best way I think. Java and Python I tend to just run from jetbra ins with docker having all the dependencies up.

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