Portable experiments (II) – “Recipes” for VMs

In the previous post we talked about Vagrant, a tool that can help us manage the creation of virtual machines. In this post we will focus on another tool called Ansible. It is based on the concept of roles: on

Portable experiments (I) – VMs with Vagrant

All programmer or researcher need to create development environments or experiments. It is highly desirable that this environments are portable and easily reproducible. The use of virtual machines and / or containers can offer this. There are several tools that