For the past few years I've been using Vagrant [1] to manage a virtual machine which I use for DSpace development [2]. Lately, however, I've been trying to use Docker [3], mostly because it's much faster, and sharing a volume between host and container is more reliable for Docker than it is for Vagrant/Virtualbox. To make this transition easier, I've been using a tool called Lando [4] to mange creating/utilizing Docker containers. In general, though, this all works out to very similar things: get a console somehow, and work there. I prefer to have things running locally on my notebook, and I like being able to work offline, though I'n only rarely away from a network any more. --Hardy 1. https://www.vagrantup.com/ 2. https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-dspace 3. https://www.docker.com/ 4. https://docs.devwithlando.io/ On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 9:33 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I’m curious to know how computing environment have changed in the past > > couple of decades, and what sorts of environments are currently most > > prevalent. —E > > > This is sort of like asking about languages -- what you use is partly need > driven, partly forced on you, and partly a matter of preference so you have > to be able to use all of them even if you have more control over your > computing environment than ever before. > > Given a choice, I prefer to do throwaway stuff on my machine and anything > else on AWS or some other third party platform unless there is reason to do > otherwise those options are generally more flexible, convenient, and > reliable than alternatives. I find real hardware a hassle from a > procurement, maintenance, and upgrading/replacement perspective and our > local cloud cannot provide the functionality of services like AWS. > > In practice, local policies, IO considerations, and cost structures also > require me to also use dedicated hardware and virtualized machines in our > local data center in addition to my preferred environments. > > kyle >