A base set of Chef recipes and preset Vagrant values that I can use as a common base for any projects that uses Vagrant for the dev environment
I was copy/pasting the same vagrantfile into all my projects, and when I found a bug or changed
a setting in one vagrantfile I had to copy the change and go into all the other projects and
paste the change into their respective vagrantfiles.
A global common Vagrantfile that had a bunch of common settings and Chef recipes that I could
import into any other project as a Git submodule that I could then use as a base which could of course be
overridden in a local project specific Vagrantfile
The lib/Vagrant.rb file allows you to set Vagrant configuration options using a singleton class that you can access in as many child vagrantfiles as you want.
Copy one of the sample Vagrantfiles into your base directory and rename to Vagrantfile.
For example, if you were going to create a vagrant box to do php development, you would do:
$ cd path/to/this/repository
$ cp ./Vagrantfile.php.sample path/to/project/Vagrantfile
then open path/to/project/Vagrantfile and edit the top require line to include the correct path to
lib/VagrantfileCommon
and then edit the new path/to/project/Vagrantfile to customize your project's configuration.
Then you should just be able to run:
vagrant up
And have a working base box.
That's what I use, that's what I write the recipes for, I'm not going for ultimate portability.
It's pretty well documented with hopefully easy to understand method names, the lib/VagrantfileCommon
and Vagrantfile.sample files should also point you in the right direction about how to use
the Singleton configuration object.
If you want to see what Vagrant is doing, you can set debugging before starting
On Windows
set VAGRANT_LOG=debug
vagrant up
on Linux
export VAGRANT_LOG=debug
vagrant up