Lima is a great tool for simple quick or for automated repeatable virtual environments!
Vagrant is approaching EOL. No more "Docker for VMs" (developer.hashicorp.com)
18 pointsby stasgea day ago7 comments
fwilhe a day ago
I replaced my vagrant usage with lima-vm due to the license change years ago and I'm happy with it https://lima-vm.io/
idontneedcoffee 14 hours ago
How exactly did the license change affected your particular use-case?
stasge 10 hours ago
Lima give you a VM.
Vagrantfile gives you a repeatable and portable environment with just a few lines of configuration. Product demo? Pre-configured local Kubernetes? Clean build environment? Pre-cooked clean setups for 3rd party software projects? Everything is possible with just vagrant up -> vagrant ssh -> vagrant halt/destroy. There is no simple alternative.
roryirvine a day ago
I think this is just the cloud-hosted registry - the good old cli remains available, albeit under the non-free Business Source License: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant
stasge 10 hours ago
It's like Docker without public registries, nobody is going to use it
stuaxo 21 hours ago
"Docker for VMs" it's what we used before docker.
stasge 10 hours ago
Docker is not a replacement though, you can't use Docker as a VM, not without workarounds, limitations and caveats.