Custom paths for Vagrant's files and dirs

Question

I started use Vagrant (+ chef_solo) for my App, and now App's folder contain following files and dirs:

  ... app's files

  .vagrant
  Vagrantfile

  Cheffile
  Cheffile.lock

  data_bags

  cookbooks
  projects_cookbooks

  ... app's files

It will be great if I can move files related with Vagrant into special directory. I mean something like this:

  ... app's files

  .vagrant
  Vagrantfile

  Vagrant
    Cheffile
    Cheffile.lock

    data_bags

    cookbooks
    projects_cookbooks

  ... app's files

In this case I will get only 3 files (dirs) in the root folder of my App

  ... app's files

  .vagrant
  Vagrantfile
  Vagrant

  ... app's files

I think it will be very good for me and my project.

So, I want to restucture file structure of Vargant files.

Anybody knows how can I do that? Or stucture of Vargant files is totally hardcoded?

Answer 1

I think I found a way to make my app's folder better. If you want to cleanup your project's folder just do following:

(I mean APP is folder of your project on HOST machine)

1) Create Vagrant folder in APP folder

2) move following files

.vagrant
Cheffile
Cheffile.lock
Vagrantfile
cookbooks
cookbooks_addons
bata_bags
... and all Vagrant-related files

into APP/Vagrant folder

3) Add additional line in Vagrant file

config.vm.synced_folder '..', '/APP'

That is all. Now you have all Vagrant-related files into Vagrant folder

Now you should use vagrant up, vagrant ssh, vagrant halt into APP/Vagrant folder.

And you should use /APP folder in Virtual Machine to get access to yours project code.

Looks pretty good for me!