Been using nomad for a few years now at the customer I got the question couple of weeks ago from some colleagues if nomad could be used to replace docker-compose.

The reason behind the question is mainly to not vendor lock yourself for local development with the whole docker eco system.

Since I like a certain level of challenge and I do believe it's a valid use case I gave it a try.

This resulted in a nomad-local-development repository. The 2 major hurdles to take where to use one file like docker-compose.yml and dns resolving between the containers.

The …

We at Inuits are using vagrant for a lot of use cases, neither you are a developer or a sysadmin you for sure will walk into it. Me, myself I do use it merely to automate the many different use cases asked by various projects. It took some time to get myself organized with this pretty nifty piece of software.

In the beginning I used it with the default virtualization provider virtualbox later on I switched to lxc containers instead. By using those containers I already gained on performance. Spinning up and down new containers to test if an application …

In this article I'll try to describe how I use vagrant in my daily tasks as an operations dude as well as I deployed it at one of our customers to help the developers focusing on the coding part rather than the operations part.

Vagrant

Since the beginning of my career at inuits I'm using vagrant almost everyday. If I got payed every time I spin up a box I could have bought that tesla already some years ago! But unfortunately I'm not :)

For almost 99% of the use cases I use this nifty tool it's related to puppet. Writing …