Skip to content
🪦

HashiCorp Vagrant (Effective Decline)

AbandonedAugust 2024

What was it?

Reproducible dev environments via VMs. The de-facto local dev VM tool of the 2010s.

What happened?

After IBM's HashiCorp acquisition and the BSL relicensing, Vagrant development effectively halted. Maintainer left HashiCorp. Containers and Devcontainers replaced its use case years ago.

Migration Guide

Docker Compose + devcontainers, Lima (macOS), Multipass (Ubuntu VMs), or OrbStack for local container/VM management.