IAC: Docker and Vagrant integration with IDE

[mjaglan]

A nice ide integration is good for easy and fast developer onboarding. It should allow developer to -

• edit code, compile, deploy locally as docker container, inside vagrant box.
• perform debugging

[mjaglan]

Eclipse IDE Tools under exploration so far -

• Doclipser: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/doclipser

• Eclipse Docker Tooling (EDT): https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-docker-tooling

• Vagrant Plugin: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/vagrant

• Eclipse Vagrant Tooling (EVT): https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-vagrant-tooling

• Similarly for IntelliJ Idea IDE, there is Docker-Integration plugin -
  https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7724-docker-integration

• But as of today, for IntelliJ Idea IDE, there is no such integration facility for Vagrant.

[mjaglan]

IDE Integration for Docker and Vagrant?

Doclipser and "Eclipse Docker Tooling (EDT)" were compared for Eclipse IDE. EDT is very stable, more rich in features, easier to use. When running dockerfile from IDE, project runs as Docker-project (instead of gradle project or maven project). EDT tool is very well supported. Similarly for IntelliJ Idea IDE, there is Docker-Integration plugin (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7724-docker-integration) which is the only choice available for that IDE and is also feature rich.

I also compared Vagrant Plugin and Eclipse Vagrant Tooling (EVT). None of them supports intellisense, code highlighting, and has very simple features to start, stop, suspend and run the VM which can be done from external CLI tool also. Running docker container via vagrant is more effortful than simple running a dockerfile from eclipse IDE.