Independent provider and provisioning in same Vagrantfile

[joao.m...@omibee.com]

I have a specific use case for Vagrant with which I'm struggling a bit.

We need to have on the same Vagrantfile a way to roll a local development VM and/or an AWS instance. For this I thought of using 2 different providers, a virtualbox provider and the vagrant-aws provider plugin.

If I have only these providers set up in the Vagrantfile, it works as expected. However, if I

vagrant up --provider=virtualbox

the provision block I have setup in the Virtualbox provider block runs twice. I have tried isolating each provider's configuration and provisioning inside if-then blocks that look at the ARGV array, but Vagrant seems to ignore this.

My final goal is to have at a project level, a way that allows my developer colleagues to vagrant up locally so that they can work on the project, but, at a different time, different host and by a different process, be able to vagrant up --provider=aws to roll a staging environment for the same project. Please note that I need different provisioning for either the local VM with Virtualbox or the staging instance on AWS. I also don't want the provisioning of each provider mixed up or both providers being setup at the same time.

Does anyone have any insight on how to do this? Vagrant's documentation on Hashicorp's website is a bit misleading as I thought I could isolate different procedures in the same Vagrantfile, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong or if it's not possible at all.

My Vagrantfile looks something like this at the moment:

Vagrant.configure(2) do | config |

  # doesn't work:
  # provider_is_aws  = (!ARGV.nil? && ARGV.join('').include?('provider=aws'))


  # unless provider_is_aws # doesn't isolate the configuration

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
    # several config.vm options
    # ...
    config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
      ansible.playbook = "local_playbook.yml"
    end
  end
  # end # unless block

  # if provider_is_aws # doesn't isolate the configuration
  config.vm.provider :aws do |aws, override|
    # several aws. options
    # ...
    override.vm.provision "Ansible_Local", type: "ansible_local" do |ansible|
      ansible.playbook = "aws_playbook.yml"
    end
  end
  # end # if block


end

If I vagrant up --provider=virtualbox the local_playbook.yml provisioner runs twice (!). This makes absolutely no sense to me. 

[joao.m...@omibee.com]

Found a typo: where it reads "If I have only these providers set up" it should be "If I have only one these providers set up"

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Can you try like this:

Vagrant.configure(2) do | config |

  # doesn't work:
  # provider_is_aws  = (!ARGV.nil? && ARGV.join('').include?('provider=aws'))


  # unless provider_is_aws # doesn't isolate the configuration

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
    # several config.vm options
    # ...

    v.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|

      ansible.playbook = "local_playbook.yml"
    end
  end
  # end # unless block

  # if provider_is_aws # doesn't isolate the configuration
  config.vm.provider :aws do |aws, override|
    # several aws. options
    # ...
    override.vm.provision "Ansible_Local", type: "ansible_local" do |ansible|
      ansible.playbook = "aws_playbook.yml"
    end
  end
  # end # if block


end

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[joao.m...@omibee.com]

Hello Alvaro!

Thanks for your reply. I ended up rethinking my process and decided to keep two distinct Vagrantfiles for each purpose. I'll try your approach when I get the chance and post some feedback here.

Again, thank you for your help.

Cheers!

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