Vagrant and virtualized environments (Changelog Interviews #72)

Wynn caught up with Mitchell Hashimoto from the Vagrant project to talk about virtualized environments, DevOps, and more.

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Featuring:

• Mitchell Hashimoto – Website, GitHub, X
• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• We’re now @TheChangelog on Twitter.
• Mitchell Hashimoto from Vagrant.
• Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments by providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle’s VirtualBox.
• Vagrant is currently a Ruby gem.
• Mitchell uses Vagrant to test his Chef cookbooks, featured in Episode 0.3.8.
• Travis CI uses Vagrant extensively.
• Show Travis some love, tell ‘em to come on The Changelog.
• Mitchell just returned from FOSDEM.
• John Bender has helped out Mitchell with Vagrant.
• VeeWee: the tool to easily build vagrant base boxes or KVM, VirtualBox, and Fusion images.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!