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Using Vagrant on cloud CI services

Are there any cloud CI services that allow Vagrant VMs to run using VirtualBox as a provider?

Early investigation shows this seems not to be possible with Travis CI or Circle CI, although the vagrant-aws plugin allows for the use of AWS servers as a Vagrant provider. Is this correct?

Solution

  • Many CI services are not allowing to run Vagrant via LXC or Virtualbox as it will require nested virtualization (running VM in VM) or a pure bare metal server provisioned for you.

    Current 2021 (updated) situation:

    • Github Actions can do it.
    • Travis was able to run Vagrant with some workarounds.
    • AppVeyor allows running VirtualBox (non-free plans).
    • You can't under CodeShip
    • You can't under CircleCI
    • Don't know about other CI services, will investigate further.

    I hope during the time we'll see CI services allowing to run Vagrant with Virtualbox or LXC, but for now Docker (with its limitations) is the only option.

    Personally, I would be happy to use it for integration tests against different platforms/linux distros via Test-Kitchen CI or similar.