Vagrant is used to create and manage consistent virtual machine environments for development and testing. It helps teams reproduce the same setup across machines, reducing configuration differences and making it easier to test software in an isolated environment.

What company sizes and industries is Vagrant the best fit for?

Vagrant is best suited to development and testing teams, with positive experiences concentrated among small businesses and users in several software and technology-related industries.

Company size — Small businesses are the most represented segment, followed by mid-market and enterprise organizations.
Industry — Internet, computer software, and information technology and services are the most represented industries.

What customer support options does Vagrant provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Vagrant support includes chat, phone support, and email/help desk, alongside FAQs and a knowledge base. The support experience can be uneven: users describe needing help with setup and configuration, while documentation and community resources can also help them work through issues.

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Vijay V.

Senior product Engineer

Architecture & Planning

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/30/2026

"Useful for creating consistent test environments"

5/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

We used Vagrant during a project where our team evaluated an internal engineering application before deployment. It was helpful because everyone could work with the same virtual environment instead of spending time configuring machines individually. Most of the setup was managed through the Vagrantfile, so once everything was prepared, creating a new environment only took a few minutes. We don’t use it every day, but for project-based testing it has been reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

The initial setup requires some familiarity with virtualization concepts, so it isn’t something new users can pick up immediately. Compared with newer container-based tools, the startup time also feels a little slower. Once configured, though, it has been stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vagrant solving and how is that benefiting you?

For one engineering project, we needed everyone to test the same application in an identical environment before release. Using Vagrant avoided differences between individual laptops, reduced setup issues, and made troubleshooting easier because everyone was working from the same configuration. It saved time during testing and reduced environment-related problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonathan G.

Software Engineer Team Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/29/2023

"Vagrant is great tool to have a out the box development environment"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

It is a very flexible tool which allows for easy setup of replicable environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

Its community is not that large, so it might be tricky to interact Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/7/2021

"A good tool for managing virtual environments in an enterprise fashion"

3/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

It is powerful and supported by HashiCorp, which provides peace of mind for enterprise developers/operators that need to manage virtual environments for different types of applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

In the last 2 years, I moved from Vagrant to Docker because the Docker ecosystem seems to have more adoption and there are more resources. Vagrant seems to have been frozen in time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jerry L.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/4/2020

"VAGRANT efficient developer!!"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

This platform will allow you to perform functions for the development of your WEB page, improve your document management and you will be able to automate virtual machines, the system and tools are attractive because we can improve and create the page with programming languages. performed by a virtual machine avoiding throwing errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

It is necessary to have technical experience, the learning curve is very long, I have required to call support to give me a hand with the configurations, it is not a simple software and you need support help to install and adapt it, in order to understand the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Vagrant:

If you have a technical experience or someone who can guide you with this platform, I would recommend it otherwise, since it is not so easy to learn, it requires a lot of time. I recommend virtual machines and web systems in order to improve our page and give favorable results in this way we are happy, I recommend them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vagrant solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can be more flexible with my work since it allows me to automate the machines and focus on the time saved in other tasks that require it, such as in the development of my WEB pages, in addition to the tools that allow editing in order to offer an automated website and attract new users and sales, I like the system and effective tools, nothing simple but useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fabio C.

Web Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/26/2019

"Great help for old technologies"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

I really loved Vagrant when I used it to reproduce a Virtual machine with PHP 5.3, which were no more downloadable or easily configured in my local machine.

I found a great pack with all I needed (PHP 5.3 and Apache ), it's also highly customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

There aren't things I dislike about Vagrant, I found it really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vis T.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/10/2018

"Vagrant is awesome"

5/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

This software is a marvel of modern computing. Never before has it been so easy to develop in multiple environments on just one pc or laptop. With a simple two word command, a virtual machine is created and launched. Vagrant goes out to the cloud and retrieves the chosen OS allowing for the developer to concentrate on the project rather than wasting extra time maintaining copies of development OSs and doing manual installations. This also makes it very easy to have the same development variables on multiple machines for multiple team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

I dislike that it is not more widely used. I also dislike how technical and complicated it looks at first glance. Vagrant is actually very simple to grasp a decent understanding rather quickly. The average user can be up and be running with Vagrant with minimal effort contrary to what a quick overview might lead to suggest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/6/2018

"Indispensable Tool for Local Development"

5/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

Provision a virtual machine mimicking your production environment in minutes. Or, should you need, easily integrate with third-party plugins and perform advanced customizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

When compared to Docker, swapping out components within your stack is a bit tedious. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brian M.

Full Stack Developer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/15/2017

"Vagrant is awesome"

5/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

Vagrant makes creating Virtual Machines super easy. Vagrantfiles can be fully customized for any operating system and can integrate with provisioning software such as Chef and Ansible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

Slight learning curve but there is lots of examples and documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Vagrant:

Use it. You will enjoy how simple Vagrant makes things. waste less time setting up so that you can spend more time developing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vagrant solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recreate customized virtual environments easily for anyone on the team to work on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniele S.

Vice presidente

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/17/2018

"The perfect companion for Virtualbox"

5/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

Easy to manage a virtual machine and scripting that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

People are ignoring vagrant for docker and abandoning the support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel N.

Senior Web Developer

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/25/2017

"Why you need to virtualise"

5/5

What do you like best about Vagrant?

The ability to distribute a configured environment to a group of people for development, QA, or general consistency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vagrant?

The initial configuration takes a long time to get right, but once done right, it's perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Vagrant:

Use it, I'd probably get started with something like PuPHPet or chef, to build your vagrantfile. As soon as you pick it up from those services, look into building your own vagrant files as you'll get more flexibility out of them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vagrant solving and how is that benefiting you?

In most dev houses, you'll always have inconsistency issues between developer's local environments which, at one point or another which cause an issue. With Vagrant boxes, this issue is completely eliminated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.