Diego Pacheco Tech blog

Currently, Docker and even Vagrant are difficult to use on Windows 10 . As far as I know the VirtualBox is not being stable at all. That's why these last versions of docker and vagrant were being so unstable and given too much head-ache. IF you have to work with a windows station I recommend not update this stack if is working for you. Some months ago I ran into serious trouble and spend lots of time to fix it.   If you are having networking issues with Vagrant or Docker on windows 10 I might have the solution for you. It works for me. :-)

In this post i will show how we can have a machine learning environment with python and scikit-learn  in Vagrant . Python is a great language however use it in windows is hard because most of libraries might now work property so something is easier just provision a environment with Vagrant and them do it in Linux - thats what we goona do. This is pretty straight forward you just need to have vagrant installed and configured before we start.

If you use windows and want code in Ruby you need use vagrant or docker because most of libraries does not for for windows at all - same happens for nodejs and python lots of libraries just dont work :(. I was trying to play with some static site generators like this and this one here . But unfortunately i use windows so vagrant pretty much made my day :-) This is pretty easy, once you have vagrant installed you just need do $ vagrant up with my Vagrantfile and them the rest will happen under the hood. You just need put RVM in your path because start using ruby - the command is on the Vgrantfile, you just need to source it and thats it.

On the previous posts i show how to use docker , docker-compose and nodejs with vagrant now let`s do a full jvm env :-) This setup is pretty easy and straightforward for you however it could take some time depending of your internet bandwidth because we gonna download several components. Remember you need to have Vagrant installed already, this time we gonna need more than just the Vagrant file because java, scala, clojure for instance require we setup environment variables so we gonna need change some files for clojure and sbt  in order to make everything work smoothly.

On the previous post i showed how to have docker and docker-compose with Vagrant . In this post i will show how to have a simple NodeJS environment with Vagrant. I will show how to install the most common solutions and frameworks for node like: npm , express , qunit , yo and much more. It`s very easy, you need to have vagrant installed, them just copy my Vagrantfile and create a directory called shared on the same folder you have copied my Vagrant file.  After that you are ready to rock.

Boot2Docker is great however it has some limitations. For instance the OS is readonly and came with pretty much nothing, setting up a shared folder in windows is challenging as well as i showed on last post .  In this post i come to show something different and easier than the previous solution. You can use docker with vagrant if you are a windows or mac user this is better than use boot2docker because IMHO you can do it easily and with less software and you also gain a linux os with you can do stuff because is not read only. Let`s use Vagrant .