Possibly better alternative?

[elreydetoda]

SUMMARY

Use @hashicorp's packaging method, instead of querying for latest version: https://medium.com/hashicorp-engineering/hashicorp-packaging-is-here-4c6083dee4f6

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

So, currently I believe the way you are pulling the vagrant packaging is still considered to be the "official" mechanism for installing vagrant, because they say to not use it in production, but I would imagine that eventually @hashicorp will move to using their repos as a more "official" way of pulling down their tools in the future. So, instead of having to query index.json (which is really cool by the way I didn't know that existed!!! 😁) you can just add the repos and then install all their tools by their name: apt install vagrant (since I am on a debian based system)

here is their gist for adding it: https://gist.github.com/jboero/c6c90c47837a2db0f6ac9095f6c733d0#file-hashicorprepo-sh

so, something like this:

- name: add hashicorp apt signing key
  apt_key:
    url: 'https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg'
    state: present
- name: setup hashicorp apt repository on Ubuntu
  apt_repository:
    repo: "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com {{ ansible_facts['distribution_release'] }} main"
    state: present
- name: installing vagrant
  package:
    name: vagrant
    state: present

[diodonfrost]

doesn't konw, we can't install a specific version of vagrant/terraform/packer with Hashicorp repository
I need to think about that

[elreydetoda]

Ya, I thought about that, and no problem 😁 just wanted to bring it to your attention. To see what you thought, and just discuss about it.

[elreydetoda]

Hey, just so you are aware @diodonfrost , I ended up running into an issue with this implementation that I am discussing in this issue. here is the link where I am telling hashicorp more about it, and hopefully it will get some resolution but just wanted to let you know: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/debian-packaging-for-vagrant/14550

[diodonfrost]

It would be great if Hashicorp added all Vagrant versions in their repository

[elreydetoda]

ya, it would be nice. I know they offer the most current version and also the next previous version (i.e. 2.2.9 ), but definitely not all versions 😢