How to combine Vagrant with Jenkins for the perfect Continuous Integration Environment?

Question

You have a project which has got some SW requirements to run (e.g.: a specific version of Apache, a version of PHP, an instance of a MySQL database and a couple of other pieces

Answer 1

Personally I'd suggest using Hashicorp Packer to build out your Vagrant boxes for developers, and then use it to also output a Docker or AWS or OpenStack image that you can run on your CI system. Vagrant is an awesome tool, but the overhead of VMs can be a little high for a CI system to constantly spin them up and down, especially if you want really fast feedback.

At a former client we basically booted the Vagrant machines once with the system, and then ran Docker/virtualenv builds inside of those VMs and we periodically destroyed them when there was a major upgrade or an issue with the environment not behaving correctly.

https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/openstack.html