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page_title: "Vagrant vs. CLI Tools"
sidebar_current: "vs-cli-tools"
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  Virtualization software like VirtualBox and VMware come with command line
  utilities for managing the lifecycle of machines on their platform. Vagrant
  actually uses many of these utilities internally. The difference between these
  CLI tools and Vagrant is that Vagrant provides a declarative, reproducible,
  idempotent workflow.
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# Vagrant vs. CLI Tools

Virtualization software like VirtualBox and VMware come with command line
utilities for managing the lifecycle of machines on their platform. Vagrant
actually uses many of these utilities internally. The difference between these
CLI tools and Vagrant is that Vagrant provides a declarative, reproducible,
idempotent workflow.