# What is Vagrant and what it is used for ?

This tutorial explains to you what is Vagrant and what it is used for.

# What is Vagrant ?

As per official documentation Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.

Vagrant does not provide virtualization engines but builds on top of already existing such as VirtualBox which is the default provider, VMware, Hyper-V or Docker. Vagrant providers are available as plugins so can be easily installed and used.

# Why to use Vagrant ?

Vagrant provides easy to configure, reproducible, and portable work environments built on top of industry-standard technology and controlled by a single consistent workflow to help maximize the productivity and flexibility of you and your team.

In a nutshell, Vagrant is a tool for working with virtual environments, and in most circumstances, this means working with virtual machines. Vagrant provides a simple and easy to use command-line client for managing these environments.

It is often used in software development to ensure all team members are building for the same configuration.