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An example of how to write Vagrantfiles following the DRY principle.
=begin
Example box JSON schema
{
    :name => :name_of_vagrant_box, #REQUIRED
    :ip => '10.0.0.11', #REQUIRED
    :synced_folders => [
        { '.' => '/home/vagrant/myapp' }
    ],
    :commands => [
        'touch /tmp/myfile'
    ],
    :vbox_config => [
        { '--memory' => '1536' }
    ],
    :chef_role => 'myrole',
    :chef_json => {
        'local' => true,
        'env_name' => 'development',
    }
}  
=end

boxes = [
    # Clean box, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - for experimentation
    { 
        :name => :clean, 
        :ip => '33.33.33.80'
    },
    # MongoDB box, with Chef 'mongo' role
    { 
        :name => :mongo,
        :ip => '33.33.33.81',
        :chef_role => 'mongo'
    },
    # Jenkins master box, with Chef 'jenkins' role
    { 
        :name => :jenkins,
        :ip => '33.33.33.82',
        :vbox_config => [
            { '--memory' => '1536' }
        ],
        :chef_role => 'jenkins',
        :chef_json => {
            'jenkins' => {
                'server' => {
                    'user' => 'jenkins'
                }
            }
        }
    }
]

# Chef JSON config for all boxes
chef_json = {
    "local" => true,
    "env_name" => "development",
    "s3cmd" => {
        "user" => "vagrant"
    },
    "chef_client" => {
        "cron" => {
            "hour" => "4",
            "minute" => "0"
        }
    }
}

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
    boxes.each do |opts|
        config.vm.define opts[:name] do |config|
            # Box basics
            config.vm.box = "precise64"
            config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"
            config.vm.network :private_network, ip: opts[:ip]
            config.ssh.forward_agent = true

            # Synced folders
            opts[:synced_folders].each do |hash|
                hash.each do |folder1, folder2|
                    config.vm.synced_folder folder1, folder2
                end
            end

            # VirtualBox customizations
            unless opts[:vbox_config].nil?
                config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
                    opts[:vbox_config].each do |hash|
                        hash.each do |key, value|
                            vb.customize ['modifyvm', :id, key, value]
                        end
                    end
                end
            end

            # Use a more recent version of Chef
            config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "gem install chef --version 11.6.0 --no-rdoc --no-ri --conservative"
            
            # Run shell commands for box
            opts[:commands].each do |command|
                config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => command    
            end

            # Configure the box with Chef
            config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
                # Set paths to local Chef resources
                chef.provisioning_path = "/etc/chef"
                chef.cookbooks_path = ["../chef/cookbooks", "../chef/vendor/cookbooks"]
                chef.roles_path = "../chef/roles"

                # Add a Chef role if specified
                unless opts[:chef_role].nil?
                    chef.add_role(opts[:chef_role])   
                end

                # Merge the general Chef JSON with box-specific JSON
                chef.json = chef_json.merge(opts[:chef_json])
            end    
        end
    end
end
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Thanks for this - I've been trying to get the "Vagrant.configure("2") " section into a "Base" file.. and then have multiple "Vagrantfiles" with just the "boxes" variable declared in them, and a load "../BaseVagrantfile" at the top. I can't seem to get this to work though.

desired folder structure:

./BaseVagrantfile
./project1/Vagrantfile
./project2/Vagrantfile

so each project can run their own project file with only simplified "boxes" variables declared.

Think that could work somehow?

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