Most companies have a large amount of devs on macbooks. Docker on the macbook has historically been painful. Mainly due to the filesystem. Whereas, vagrant doesn't really have that problem. I've been using Linux for so long that I haven't really experienced the pain myself. But I have gotten to enjoy the smugness of them all complaininga about their performance while mines is super snappy.
Then if you look at the toolchain surounding vagrant such as packer. It looks really nice. Docker doesn't seem so nice. In fact, I still use packer to build my docker container images because I like the setup nicer.
With Docker it's all about the production env. I see the benefits for prod but for dev when you're literally not using the same docker setup as you would in prod it makes no real sense to me.
Vagrant still allows people to have deviating personal environments, which destroys productivity when people have to constantly diagnose what changes they have in their local env don't match other things. Vagrant+Docker is a decent compromise. Best is cloud-native development. If everyone [on a single team] SSH's into one box in the cloud with one set of dependencies, everyone gets the same environment every time, and updates go out to everyone immediately without fail. K8s has similar projects to let you develop in a pod on the actual cluster, eliminating difference between dev<->prod.
> Vagrant still allows people to have deviating personal environments,
So does docker the way many folk use it for their development. In fact, I saw in one place people set up env setups for their docker so each team member could have theirs the way they wanted it. Create a container and use forever. Very rarely in my experience are people completely rebuilding their env.
Then if you look at the toolchain surounding vagrant such as packer. It looks really nice. Docker doesn't seem so nice. In fact, I still use packer to build my docker container images because I like the setup nicer.
With Docker it's all about the production env. I see the benefits for prod but for dev when you're literally not using the same docker setup as you would in prod it makes no real sense to me.