I’ve played with a few of Vagrant’s support provisioners: Puppet, Chef and Ansible. They all are very powerful and have tons of options but of course with options comes complexity. It took me hours to learn each provisioner and get it to do what I wanted and I had to fight with each one at each step.

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When I first started using Vagrant I simply dismissed the simple shell provisioner. What serious developer would use such a simple tool? Real developers use real provisioners.

Anyway, long story short, I spent less than 1 hour today with the shell provisioner and got it to do exactly what I wanted. I guess I like to pretend that my provisioning needs were a lot more complicated than they actually were.