问题
Can anybody explain to me the difference?
Provisioner - is something doing provision - in docker installing, running, pulling containers.
Provider - is something that runs the VM. I.e. VBox runs the ubuntu OS image.
How can be Docker a provider? It runs directly some docker image? If I'm on windows there must some hidden usage of boot2docker right? When will I use each one?
回答1:
Docker provisioner help to prepare environment: build and pull images, run containers if you need multiple containers running for your vagrant machine. Docker provider is running vagrant machine in docker container (instead of VM/cloud as other providers do).
On Linux vagrant is using docker from the host OS. On Windows and MacOS X boot2docker is used for both docker provisioner and provider. By default all vagrant docker machines are using the same boot2docker instance - but you could configure which VM to use (It does not need to be boot2docker - any Linux with docker is ok).
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30394707/vagrant-docker-provider-vs-docker-provisioner