Work Flow Development

[Felix]

Hi to all,

We all know that Vagrant and Docker and DevilBox, etc. etc. are used as environments for Web Development.
You can even work with (expensive) instances in clouds from Google, Oracle or AWS.
If you like to use those work flows, go ahead and use them.

Please don't write your replies here about Vagrant, Docker, Devilbox and all the others.
There are plenty of places on the internet where you can write replies about them.

This thread is about an alternative, practical and easy way to have your own Web Development environment,
locally - and portable - on your own LapTop and use GS to develop websites.

The idea here is to use your own set of virtual machines on your own laptop with VMWare,
as portable environments to do non destructive experiments, evaluate programs in a safe way,
learn and build websites with GS, webshops, webapps, etc.

Having it all in a portable way.

I found out about the Sandisk ultra flair usb 3.0 pendrive. These usb pendrives are really fast !
These Sandisks are fast enough to run your virtual machines directly from these pendrives.
So in this way they are perfect to store your virtual machines and run them on any laptop !
Install once - run everywhere !

I bought a few of these pendrives, you can buy a 64Gb for around 9 euros and a 128Gb one
for around 20 euros.

You can see them here:
https://shop.westerndigital.com/products...3-016G-A46
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-Fla...B015CH1NAQ

Lately I have been testing a lot with:

- VMWare and Virtualbox local hypervisors
- Laragon, Wamp, UWamp, Zend and UniForm local development servers
- FireFox, Chrome, Maxthon, Cliqz, Brave, Iron, Palemoon, Slimjet and other Internet Browsers

I noticed that:

1) VMWare performs much better in speed and guest tools compared to VirtualBox
2) Laragon performs much better in speed and setup compared to the other local Servers
3) Epic Browser stand-alone version performs best compared to the other Browsers

So what are the Advantages of this work flow:

1. Work with your own set of Virtual Machines simply from a usb pendrive (fast sandisk)
2. Use them locally on your own laptop
3. Work with both Windows and Linux to get to know both worlds
4. Be more productive with the GS cms and build websites faster
5. With snapshots, build, destroy, rebuild non destructively as often as you want
6. Share your Virtual Machines with others
7. Keep everything portable on your own pendrive and use anywhere

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To be continued,
F.