What is the difference between Vagrant and VMware?
The question is about Vagrant
The difference between Vagrant and VMware lies in their roles and focus within development and virtualization. VMware provides several virtualization solutions: VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, and VMware vSphere, for creating and managing virtual machines on physical servers. VMware provides a strong, high-performance platform for running multiple operating systems on a single host. Often used in enterprise settings, both development and production are common scenarios.
But Vagrant is also a tool for provisioning and managing a development environment. A layer of automation, if you want to put it that way; Vagrant allows the developers to describe and reproduce environments in code-Vagrantfile-so that the environments across team members are consistent. That said, Vagrant does leverage providers like VMware, VirtualBox, and Docker for the purposes of creating VMs or containers, but it has focused on the setup and automation of the environment rather than on the virtualization technology per se.
VMWare would provide the virtualization platform in return, while Vagrant would manage and automate the setup of the environment on top.
