Vagrant and Hyper-V: Don't do it!

I've used Vagrant since 2015 in combination with Virtualbox for creating development machines. Recently however I'm experiencing more issues with Virtualbox. For example CPUs getting stuck when assigning multiple CPUs to a VM and issues with auto adjusting the guest resolution when I resize the VM window. These annoyances drove me to try out Vagrant with Hyper-V (running an Ubuntu 21.04 guest on a Windows 11 host). In this blog post I'll describe my experiences. In summary, it did not make me happy. A lot of things which work out of the box with Vagrant and VirtualBox require effort to get working in Hyper-V. Not only that but several alternative solutions are required outside of Hyper-V because of lack of features. I think I should try VMWare next to see if it will provide a better experience. You can download my Vagrantfile and provisioning script here.

Minikube on Windows. Hyper-V vs Vagrant/VirtualBox

Kubernetes is a system for running and coordinating containerized applications across a cluster of machines. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster and can be used for local development. In this blog post I'll compare 2 different ways to get a working Minikube environment on Windows based on experience with a workshop which we've created. One based on using Vagrant and VirtualBox (in which an Ubuntu environment is created) and one which uses Hyper-V (and an out of the box Minikube Linux distribution running on top). Do mind that many of the things in this blog post are a personal opinion.