Commit e9337b81 by Renzo Lucioni

Make README clearer about this project's relationship with Vagrant

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Get up and running quickly with edX services. Get up and running quickly with edX services.
This project is meant to replace the traditional Vagrant VM "devstack" with a multi-container approach driven by Docker Compose. You should run any Make targets described below on your local machine, not from within a VM.
## Getting Started ## Getting Started
All of the services can be run by following the steps below. All of the services can be run by following the steps below.
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## Loopback Alias ## Loopback Alias
Containers making requests to the LMS and Studio must communicate with ports exposed on the host system by the Vagrant VM. Containers making requests to the LMS and Studio must communicate with ports exposed on the host system by the Vagrant VM. (This assumes that the LMS and Studio are still running in the traditional Vagrant-based devstack.)
This is fine on Linux, but doesn't work out of the box on OS X. Attempting to access localhost on a container will result This is fine on Linux, but doesn't work out of the box on OS X. Attempting to access localhost on a container will result
in talking to the Docker for Mac HyperKit VM, not the host machine. in talking to the Docker for Mac HyperKit VM, not the host machine.
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