Vagrant 1.7.4: Salt Bootstrap broken

[Joaquin Menchaca]

I posted this in Salt Users group, but figured there might be others (new users, etc) interested in this from Vagrant as well.  I found some workarounds for these two issues that seem to work.  I haven't tested these out in other distros/versions.

Issues:

• https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/6029
• https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/6103

Solution:

For Debian Wheezy and Cent OS 6.6, I had to append -F -c /tmp, so my Vagrantfile looked liked this:

  config.vm.synced_folder "../../provisioning/salt", "/srv/salt/"

  # Provision System
  config.vm.provision :salt do |salt|
    salt.run_highstate = true
    salt.minion_config = "../../provisioning/minion"
    salt.bootstrap_options = "-F -c /tmp"          # Vagrant Issue #6011
    salt.verbose = true
  end

For Ubuntu Precise 12.04, I add to add an -P, as pip is used to install Tornado 4.0+:

  config.vm.synced_folder "../../provisioning/salt", "/srv/salt/"

  # Provision System
  config.vm.provision :salt do |salt|
    salt.run_highstate = true
    salt.minion_config = "../../provisioning/minion"
    salt.bootstrap_options = "-F -c /tmp -P"    # Vagrant Issues #6011 & #6029
    salt.verbose = true
  end
end

[Oliver Bestwalter]

Thanks Joaquin,

much appreciated. 

The Salt provisioner definitely needs more testing love before releases, to prevent these kinds of breakhages that become obvious once you run the code with some standard settings against the mainstream distros. 

cheers

Oliver