Local web development vs Vagrant vs Docker: What’s right for you?

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Kubernetes

If you need more control for your container environment, Kubernetes is probably where you will end up. Kubernetes (often abbreviated as k8s) is a "container orchestration" tool. The tool is designed to run huge distributed infrastructure. This makes perfect sense when you learn that Google is the original source of the project.

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Helm.sh

In the cluster's default state, it won't have any of your application's services in it. We can deploy these services to minikube or any other cluster using kubectl or some other tool like Helm. Since we've descended down the rabbit hole for quite a while, let's gloss over the details around this level of provisioning.

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Google Cloud Platform

Your local operating system is not going to match with the operating system of your live website. Statistically, you run Windows. Maybe you're a macOS person like me, but the data shows that Windows still dominates. Most websites run on AWS, GCP, Azure, or on a Virtual Private Server like Digital Ocean or Linode, and most things running on these services are Linux. The bad news is that the differences between operating systems will bite you. Windows and Linux are different beasts. I am acutely aware of this fact from writing a cross platform Perl application waaaay back in the day (the filesystem / and \ differences alone were the bane of my existence).

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Microsoft Azure

Your local operating system is not going to match with the operating system of your live website. Statistically, you run Windows. Maybe you're a macOS person like me, but the data shows that Windows still dominates. Most websites run on AWS, GCP, Azure, or on a Virtual Private Server like Digital Ocean or Linode, and most things running on these services are Linux. The bad news is that the differences between operating systems will bite you. Windows and Linux are different beasts. I am acutely aware of this fact from writing a cross platform Perl application waaaay back in the day (the filesystem / and \ differences alone were the bane of my existence).

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AWS Fargate

Here's where the staff size comes in. There are services that exclusively manage containers like AWS Fargate. A service like Fargate trades staff time for money. With Fargate, Amazon will run your containers on their infrastructure without forcing you to manage machines. Considering the cost of developer time, this could be an insanely good deal for you. Aside from cost, one downside of this approach is less control.

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Amazon AWS

Your local operating system is not going to match with the operating system of your live website. Statistically, you run Windows. Maybe you're a macOS person like me, but the data shows that Windows still dominates. Most websites run on AWS, GCP, Azure, or on a Virtual Private Server like Digital Ocean or Linode, and most things running on these services are Linux. The bad news is that the differences between operating systems will bite you. Windows and Linux are different beasts. I am acutely aware of this fact from writing a cross platform Perl application waaaay back in the day (the filesystem / and \ differences alone were the bane of my existence).

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