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How I fell in love with Vagrant as a LAMP instructor using Scotch Box

Schuster Braun on May 10, 2019

My Hypothesis The basics I'm a web development boot camp instructor at theClubhouse and I teach full LAMP stack. On site we...
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Elias Bourgess

Knowing how to setup your coding environment is as important as knowing how to code. We actually use Vagrant at work to host our code base locally on our machines instead of having to install MAMP.

And it is actually really important to know how to setup because not everybody gets to work in a company where someone will help them do this at first, or even might go freelancing so they need to know this.

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Giovanni Lenoci

Why learning to setup vagrant when there's docker out there?

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Schuster Braun

Great question, I came to Vagrant as the answer because I need to teach LAMP stack and actually spinning up fully fledged virtual machines and file systems fulfills that requirement. Also, Without knowing either it is my assumption that getting Vagrant to work vs. Docker would be a much faster process. I'm very impressionable and open to suggestion.