vagrant ssh_port with ansible static inventory

[cmar...@aminocom.com]

I am trying to use vagrant to create a VM  with an ansible provisioning of a static defined inventory. But I cannot see how ansible will know how to connect to the VM that has been created. All solutions I have seen so-far force me to hardcode the network configuration and align that  with the inventory:

I really want to use the static inventory files, as here we configure what ansible groups the machine is a part of. 

The following example works when I hardcode the value for ansible_ssh_port; but I cannot find a way to discover it and given that vagrant will do vagrant automatic port conflict discovery and avoidance; I don't know how I can work around it?

Vagrant.require_version ">= 1.7.0"

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"

  config.vm.define "example_server" # This is the fixed name in the host file and is referenced by playbooks

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|

   v.memory = 8192

   v.cpus = 4

 end

  config.ssh.forward_agent = true

  # Setup the Deployment user

 config.vm.provision "deployuser", type: "ansible" do |ansible|

   ansible.verbose = "v"

   ansible.playbook = "add_deployment_user.yml"

   ansible.inventory_path = "inventories/example.hosts"

   ansible.extra_vars = {

     ansible_ssh_host: "127.0.0.1",

     ansible_ssh_port: config.ssh.port

   }

 end

end

[cmar...@aminocom.com]

OK didn't get any feedback on this one yet; so I had a look at the source for Vagrant; it seemed reasonably easy to resolve so I have proposed the following pull-request:

https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/pull/8131

Lets see if my proposal gets any traction.