Create Virtual Machines with Vagrant and Puppet

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　　Create the following puppet manifest and start VM with vagrant, you get a base production environment.

$ pwd
/home/chad/docs/vagrant-prj/gcpserver

$ cat Vagrantfile|grep -v '^\s*#'
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.box = "precise64"
config.vm.network :public_network
config.vm.provision "puppet"
end

$ cat manifests/default.pp
package { 'vsftpd':
ensure => installed,
}
service { 'vsftpd':
ensure => running,
require => Package['vsftpd'],
}
user { "gcp":
ensure     => "present",
password   => 'gcp',
managehome => true,
}

$ vagrant init
$ vagrant up

　　But the password doesn't work, see User Password Management Fails in Puppet for reason.
　　You have to modify password for user 'gcp' manually.
　　The type of network is written as "bridged" in api version 1 style.

Create multiple VMs
　　To specify hostname, memory size and some other parameters of each VM, modify Vagrantfile like this:

$ cat Vagrantfile|grep -v '^\s*#'
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.box = "precise64"

config.vm.define "bvtserver" do |bvtserver|
bvtserver.vm.hostname = "bvt-server"
bvtserver.vm.network :public_network
bvtserver.vm.provision :shell, path: "bvtprov.sh"
end

config.vm.define "production" do |production|
production.vm.hostname = "gcp-server"
production.vm.network :public_network
production.vm.provision :puppet
production.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vbox|
vbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--name", "ProductEnv", "--memory", 1024]
end
end
end

　　And add a shell script for provisioning of bvt server:

$ cat bvtprov.sh
echo "You can do some provisioning here"

　　Ref:
　　http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16740397/vagrant-network-type-bridged-is-invalid-please-use-a-valid-network-type
　　http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18700060/seting-up-vm-hostname-undefined-method-hostname