<s>
Vagrant	B-Application
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
software	I-Application
product	O
for	O
building	O
and	O
maintaining	O
portable	B-Architecture
virtual	B-General_Concept
software	O
development	O
environments	O
;	O
e.g.	O
,	O
for	O
VirtualBox	B-Operating_System
,	O
KVM	B-Application
,	O
Hyper-V	O
,	O
Docker	B-Language
containers	I-Language
,	O
VMware	O
,	O
Parallels	B-Language
,	O
and	O
AWS	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
tries	O
to	O
simplify	O
the	O
software	O
configuration	B-General_Concept
management	I-General_Concept
of	O
virtualization	B-General_Concept
in	O
order	O
to	O
increase	O
development	O
productivity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vagrant	B-Application
is	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
Ruby	B-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
but	O
its	O
ecosystem	B-Application
supports	O
development	O
in	O
a	O
few	O
other	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vagrant	B-Application
was	O
first	O
started	O
as	O
a	O
personal	O
side-project	O
by	O
Mitchell	O
Hashimoto	O
in	O
January	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
Vagrant	B-Application
was	O
released	O
in	O
March	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2010	O
,	O
Engine	O
Yard	O
declared	O
that	O
they	O
were	O
going	O
to	O
sponsor	O
the	O
Vagrant	B-Application
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
stable	O
version	O
,	O
Vagrant	B-Application
1.0	O
,	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
March	O
2012	O
,	O
exactly	O
two	O
years	O
after	O
the	O
original	O
version	O
was	O
released	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2012	O
,	O
Mitchell	O
formed	O
an	O
organization	O
called	O
HashiCorp	O
to	O
support	O
the	O
full-time	O
development	O
of	O
Vagrant	B-Application
;	O
Vagrant	B-Application
remained	O
permissively	O
licensed	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
HashiCorp	O
now	O
works	O
on	O
creating	O
commercial	O
editions	O
and	O
provides	O
professional	O
support	O
and	O
training	O
for	O
Vagrant	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vagrant	B-Application
was	O
originally	O
tied	O
to	O
VirtualBox	B-Operating_System
,	O
but	O
version	O
1.1	O
added	O
support	O
for	O
other	O
virtualization	B-General_Concept
software	O
such	O
as	O
VMware	O
and	O
KVM	B-Application
,	O
and	O
for	O
server	O
environments	O
like	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
EC2	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vagrant	B-Application
is	O
written	O
in	O
Ruby	B-Language
,	O
but	O
it	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
projects	O
written	O
in	O
other	O
programming	O
languages	O
such	O
as	O
PHP	B-Application
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
C#	B-Application
,	O
and	O
JavaScript	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
version	O
1.6	O
,	O
Vagrant	B-Application
natively	O
supports	O
Docker	B-Language
containers	I-Language
,	O
which	O
in	O
some	O
cases	O
can	O
serve	O
as	O
a	O
substitute	O
for	O
a	O
fully	O
virtualized	B-General_Concept
operating	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vagrant	B-Application
uses	O
"	O
Provisioners	O
"	O
and	O
"	O
Providers	O
"	O
as	O
building	O
blocks	O
to	O
manage	O
the	O
development	O
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Provisioners	O
are	O
tools	O
that	O
allow	O
users	O
to	O
customize	O
the	O
configuration	O
of	O
virtual	B-General_Concept
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Puppet	B-Application
and	O
Chef	B-Application
are	O
the	O
two	O
most	O
widely	O
used	O
provisioners	O
in	O
the	O
Vagrant	B-Application
ecosystem	B-Application
(	O
Ansible	B-Language
has	O
been	O
available	O
since	O
at	O
least	O
2014	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Providers	O
are	O
the	O
services	O
that	O
Vagrant	B-Application
uses	O
to	O
set	O
up	O
and	O
create	O
virtual	B-General_Concept
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Support	O
for	O
VirtualBox	B-Operating_System
,	O
Hyper-V	O
,	O
and	O
Docker	B-Language
virtualization	B-General_Concept
ships	O
with	O
Vagrant	B-Application
,	O
while	O
VMware	O
and	O
AWS	B-General_Concept
are	O
supported	O
via	O
plugins	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vagrant	B-Application
sits	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
virtualization	B-General_Concept
software	O
as	O
a	O
wrapper	B-Library
and	O
helps	O
the	O
developer	O
interact	O
easily	O
with	O
the	O
providers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
automates	O
the	O
configuration	O
of	O
virtual	B-General_Concept
environments	O
using	O
Chef	B-Application
or	O
Puppet	B-Application
,	O
and	O
the	O
user	O
does	O
not	O
have	O
to	O
directly	O
use	O
any	O
other	O
virtualization	B-General_Concept
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
"	O
Box	O
"	O
is	O
a	O
format	O
and	O
an	O
extension	B-Application
(	O
.box	O
)	O
for	O
Vagrant	B-Application
environments	O
that	O
is	O
copied	O
to	O
another	O
machine	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
replicate	O
the	O
same	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
official	O
Vagrant	B-Application
documentation	O
details	O
the	O
installation	O
,	O
command	O
line	O
usage	O
,	O
and	O
relevant	O
configuration	O
of	O
Vagrant	B-Application
.	O
</s>
