In return, we have more time to work on features rather than fighting boring and never-ending issues. More details on why to use Vagrant and its benefit can be found on the official Vagrant web site:Īltogether, Packer/Vagrant reduce the complexity of dealing with low-level details of virtual machine image builds, creating and configuring virtual machines and other useless tasks. Vagrant is another tool by HashiCorp which comes handy while building development, test or lab virtual machine environment.

When it comes to baking virtual machine images and managing Virtual machines, there might be no better tool than HashiCorp’s Packer and Vagrant by HashiCorp. Automation and tooling can save hours of work, lower down internal cost, help to deliver more features, and maybe most important - improve the team's moral and happiness. With the increasing complexity of the infrastructure builds and software engineering, the right tooling and automation is a crucial contributor to the overall project success. So let’s start building! Fast forward to Packer/Vagrant Open-sourcing The Uplift project, high-level overview and how it works.The Uplift Project - Packer/Vagrant toolkit for SharePoint professionals.This post also continues a mini-series on The Uplift project - a Packer/Vagrant toolkit for SharePoint professionals more details on which you can find below:

We value your time and offer a scalable solution for your team or the whole company - this is a fully automated and hence scalable Packer/Vagrant workflow which can be run on Windows/MacOS laptops, on Windows 2008, 2012, 2016, in the cloud, share with the team or integrate into CI/CD pipelines. There is no manual steps, wizards or screenshots. This post shows how you can create a disposable Windows 2016 domain controller in 20 minutes with no manual interventions.

Vagrant base box