Vagrant

Until now, we used solutions provided by Microsoft; maybe we should call them native solutions. That's not the only way to deploy your workload in Azure. Many vendors have created solutions to automate deployments in Azure. In this section, we want to cover a solution from a company called HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com). Later on in this chapter, we'll cover another product from this company: Packer. There are several reasons why we have chosen these products:

• The products are very popular and well-known.
• There is an excellent relationship between Microsoft and HashiCorp; they work very hard together to implement more and more features.
• And the most important reason: HashiCorp has different products that you can use for different implementation scenarios. This will make you think again about what method you want to choose in different use cases.

Vagrant is a tool you can use for deployment if you are a developer. It helps you to set up...