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. On Friday, 16 December 2016 16:31:37 UTC, [email protected] wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/b4c9661d-89df-420e-8970-7f24e1dd1ad4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
