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hashicorp/vagrant

Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/hashicorp/vagrant · homepage · Ruby · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

78/100

  • Activity 95
  • Release rhythm 44
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 26
  • age_days: 6068
  • days_rel: 377
  • days_push: 30
  • n_releases_24m: 8

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

27203 stars · 4394 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Vagrant is a command-line tool for building, provisioning, and managing portable, reproducible development environments as virtual machines or containers. Environments are described in a Vagrantfile and can run on providers like VirtualBox, VMware, Docker, AWS, or OpenStack.

Use cases

  • set up a reproducible development environment with one command
  • spin up a virtual machine for local development
  • share identical dev environments across a team
  • manage the lifecycle of virtual machines from the CLI
  • provision a VM automatically with shell scripts, Chef, or Puppet
  • test software on multiple operating systems locally
  • avoid 'works on my machine' issues with disposable environments

When to choose

  • you need consistent, disposable dev environments across Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • your team wants a single Vagrantfile committed to version control so anyone can run vagrant up
  • you want to automate VM provisioning with standard tools like shell, Chef, or Puppet
  • you need to test against different OSes or provider backends (VirtualBox, VMware, Docker, AWS)

When to avoid

  • you only need containerized environments - plain Docker or Docker Compose is lighter
  • you want full infrastructure provisioning rather than dev environments - Terraform fits better
  • you rely on the HCP Vagrant Registry, which is being deprecated in March 2027
  • you need Kubernetes or orchestration rather than single-VM workflows

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

developer-tools configuration-management deployment cli developer-tools cross-platform cli windows vagrant virtual-machines vagrantfile boxes virtualbox vmware docker provisioning reproducible-environments hashicorp virtualization devops automation macos linux

10 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
hashicorp/vagrantmain78

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