BSL shenanigans continue to make waves
Virter is a useful little tool if you often create – and then remove – VMs to try stuff. It's arguably carried on the ripples from HashiCorp dropping the BSL into the FOSS pond.FOSS desk arrived was stricken with storms and flooding, as was much of central Europe last weekend. The whirring server farms of the cryptocurrency fans and LLM hucksters are making matters worse in this department.
But Valkey isn't the only such fork of a newly relicensed product, and Redis is far from the only company making such radical changes. The year before,. Vagrant is a handy command-line tool that lets you create, run, configure, and connect to a new VM containing a choice of OSes – and, once you've tested your code, quickly remove them again. Vagrant used to be FOSS, and it was included in most major Linux distributions' repositories – but it's not anymore.
Users can configure Vagrant to use other hypervisors, but that rather misses the point of a tool that's designed to simplify the process.. These tools are noticeably more complex and fiddly than VirtualBox, so placing a wrapper around them to simplify matters is welcome. Böhmwalder pointed out there are other, similar tools out there as well as Vagrant, such asyou use becomes the last octet of its IP address, so in this case it could be 192.168.0.100 .
Virter isn't a fork of Vagrant, and it's not even a direct response. It's rather an alternative, using existing and more Linux-standard tooling, which does much the same job. But with Vagrant disappearing from distro repos due to the BSL, it may be that Virter is poised to take its place. In the meantime, you can just download and run it directly from GitHub.
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