This guest post, which is now updated for CDH 5, comes to us from David Greco.
Vagrant is a very nice tool for programmatically managing many virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical machine. It natively supports VirtualBox and also provides plugins for VMware Fusion and Amazon EC2, supporting the management of VMs in those environments as well.
Vagrant provides a very easy-to-use, Ruby-based internal DSL that allows the user to define one or more virtual machines together with their configuration parameters.
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