09:09 <guardian> o/

13:54 <guardian> guys, are you familiar with Vagrant and/or Docker?

13:58 <FabianB> both to some degree

14:00 <bobthecow> guardian: yup.

14:01 <guardian> I made "a nanoc framework", for our documentation projects here at the company. I'm sharing this with 2 provisioning scripts: 1 for Debian based Linux distros, 1 for Macs using Homebrew

14:01 <guardian> now I want to do something for Windows users

14:02 <guardian> and I'm hesitating between Vagrant and Boot2Docker

14:02 <guardian> to my understanding (so far), both are really close

14:02 <guardian> and in the end it's going to rely on VirtualBox (on Windows host) "talking" to Linux guest where nanoc compile runs

14:02 <guardian> do you have advice to share with me in that respect?

14:03 <bobthecow> vagrant is a bit less of a pain than boot2docker in my experience, if you're not already using docker for something else.

14:04 <bobthecow> and most of the reasons it's awesome won't matter as much for just a nanoc container.

14:04 <guardian> also I've read Vagrant is slower than Docker on Mac

14:04 <bobthecow> (multiple container types, reusable partial builds, service discovery, shared directories, etc)

14:04 <guardian> that totally contradicts my understanding

14:05 <guardian> both need VirtualBox to spawn the host, how Vagrant could be slower I just don't get it

14:05 <bobthecow> both are reasonably fast.

14:05 <bobthecow> at least on my computer, in my experience, with my use case.

14:05 <bobthecow> the filesystem is crazy slow on boot2docker/docker.

14:06 <bobthecow> i haven't noticed that on vagrant, but i also haven't used vagrant in a case where the filesystem was a bottleneck.

14:07 <bobthecow> in fact, i've never used 'em side by side for the exact same project, so i don't have the best frame of reference :)

14:09 <guardian> thanks for the feedback so far

14:09 <guardian> I'll start with Vagrant

14:09 <guardian> "nanoc compile" as an app in Docker doesn't sound right to me anyways

14:11 <bobthecow> "nanoc" would be the app in docker, and "compile" would be one of the things you could run on it.

14:14 <FabianB> 1 box/container with boot2docker or vagrant should be equally fast on mac/windows, for 100 boxes of course docker would be faster because 1 vm with 100 containers.. but you wouldn't do that in virtualbox anyway

14:15 <FabianB> for local dev type stuff on win/mac vagrant is probably the way to go

15:23 <guardian> FabianB: exactly for 1 box it should be the same overhead, so many clueless articles on the subject