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many configrations of a single machine with a single Vagrant file

I'm using Salt Stack to provision a Virtualbox vm using Vagrant and environment variables passed in from the command line to tell Vagrant which project to configure: 

PROJECT='drupal-site' vagrant up

This value is then used to set a Salt minion's ID so that it configures itself correctly. I'm concerned that when a vm is provisioned and configured and then another project is specified from the cli, that the same vm instance will attempt to be configured again for a different project, when what I actually want is two vm instances. I don't want many Vagrant files if a single one will do.

I think this may be possible if I can control Vagrant's :id property but cannot figure out where this is set.

Any insight?

Solution

  • I solved this using Varant's multi-machine setup BUT using only a single machine:

    PROJECT = ENV['PROJECT']
...
config.vm.define PROJECT do |project|
    project.vm.box = "precise64"
    project.vm.host_name = PROJECT + ".localhost"
...

    Works a treat :D