What is the difference between Vagrant and Nomad?
The question is about Vagrant
The difference between Vagrant and Nomad lies in their purposes and environments. Vagrant is a tool that has been used to create and manage consistent development environments, normally on a developer’s local machine. Its main work is the provisioning of Virtual Machines or Containers with the help of providers like VirtualBox, Docker, or VMware so that the developers can have production-like environments locally for development and testing.
Nomad is a workload orchestrator, designed for the deployment and management of applications in production at scale. Like Vagrant, Nomad was created by HashiCorp, but it schedules tasks and manages containerized and non-containerized workloads on multiple servers. Optimized for distributed environments, Nomad can manage tasks across data centers and perform load balancing, scaling, and service discovery.
Vagrant’s focus is to provide provisioning for the local environment, while Nomad provides large-scale deployment and orchestration on distributed infrastructure.
