What is Vagrant and what is it used for?

Vagrant is an open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments[1]. It is written in the Ruby programming language[1].

The main purpose of Vagrant is to create and manage virtual development environments. It acts as a higher-level wrapper around virtualization software like VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Docker, VMware, and AWS[1][2][3].

Some key uses of Vagrant include:

• Creating uniform development environments across an entire team by defining a single Vagrantfile configuration[3]
• Mimicking production environments closely to aid in efficient debugging and smoother deployment processes[3]
• Automating the setup of virtual machines with specific operating systems, memory, CPU, and other settings[2]
• Integrating with configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet to provision ...