Override Vagrant configuration settings locally (per-dev)

Question

I\'d like the question to be answered in general, but to illustrate it, here\'s a use case:

I\'m using Vagrant for a simple LMAP project. I use standalone Puppet for pro

Answer 1

To extend on @Willie Wheeler 's answer. My setup is:

Root
|-- defaults.yml
|-- env.yml
|-- Vagrantfile

Vagrantfile

# Load local env config
require 'yaml'
dir = File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__))

# defaults
settings = YAML::load_file("#{dir}/defaults.yml")

if File.exist?("#{dir}/env.yml")
    env_settings = YAML::load_file("#{dir}/env.yml")
    settings.merge!(env_settings)
end
...
# Customize the amount of memory on the VM:
    vb.memory = settings["vb"]["memory"]

defaults.yml

vb:
  memory: 1024

env.yml

vb:
  memory: 204

This will merge whatever defaults you have with your per-dev config. Also it is clear to developers what values they can actually change