sa-vagrant

Installs basic vagrant setup with necessary plugins

Example of use:

     - {
         role: "sa-vagrant",
         vagrant_version: 1.8.1,

         vagrant_plugins:
           - vagrant-vbguest
           - vagrant-hostsupdater
           - vagrant-auto_network
       }

There are tons of vagrant plugins. Some of them are quite handy. Usually I am using three plugins with vagrant:

• vagrant-vbguest: Synhronizes guest additions versions inside image with the master Oracle VirtualBox version. This helps to prevent random issues with shared folders.
• vagrant-hostsupdater: Automatically updates host files with side dev aliases used. Important: this plugin will ask you for privileged access to write into /etc/hosts.
• vagrant-auto_network: This plugin registers an internal address range and assigns unique IP addresses for each successive request so that network configuration is entirely hands off. It's much lighter than running a DNS server and masks the underlying work of manually assigning addresses.

With plugins above, my Vagrantfile usually contains: aliases for dev websites to be added to /etc/hosts + I prefer all Vagrant boxes to have the same IP address subnetwork.

config.vm.hostname = "www.local.dev"
config.hostsupdater.aliases = ["alias.local.dev", "alias2.local.dev"]
config.vm.network :private_network, :auto_network => true

# My favorite:  to stick to 33.* subnetwork
AutoNetwork.default_pool = '192.168.33.0/24'

Vagrant in action:

https://github.com/Voronenko/lamp-box/