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Lesson Title: Why Vagrant?

Rationale

Vagrant is getting a lot attention as a useful tool for creating customized developer environments, but it's not appropriate for every situation. In this lesson we cover the hardware limitations you should be aware of before we dive into this learning series.

Lesson Outcomes

Major Objective

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to describe the advantages, and disadvantages for creating a local development environment with Vagrant.

Student Self-Check Tasks

  • Do you want to proceed with Vagrant?
  • Does it sound like it will solve your problems? [yes|no]
  • Do you have the necessary hardware to proceed with the lessons?
  • Or should you stick with WAMP/MAMP?

Lesson Summary

This learning series requires the following hardware capacity:

  • 4G RAM minimum, 8G preferred.
  • At least 5-10GB of disk space available per virtual machine.