Vagrant (again)
As we have already discovered earlier in this chapter, Vagrant can be used as a virtual machine manager. We have already used it to bring up a local Ubuntu 14.04 instance using VirtualBox on our local machine; however, if we wanted to, we could have done this using VMware Fusion, Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, or even OpenStack.
Like Puppet and Ansible, when Docker was first released, there were a lot of articles published around Vagrant versus Docker. In fact, when the question was asked on Stack Overflow, the authors of both Vagrant and Docker weighed in on the question. You can read the full discussion at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16647069/should-i-use-vagrant-or-docker-for-creating-an-isolated-environment
So, in what ways can Vagrant support Docker? There are two main ones we are going to be looking at. The first is the provisioner.
Provisioning using Vagrant
When we worked out way through Puppet, we used Vagrant to launch Ubuntu 14.04 locally using VirtualBox...
