Update host's /etc/hosts file too

[kindkid]

It'd be nice if this gem also updated the host machine's /etc/hosts file too. It may be worth looking at ghost ( https://github.com/bjeanes/ghost ) for integration/inspiration.

[adrienthebo]

👍 for this behavior. I was thinking of that initially when I worked on this, and I started building out a primitive driver layer so that hosts could be provisioned with the same code as guests.

However, writing to /etc/hosts is going to require superuser permission. How would you like to see that handled? On a VM it's easy to do since you can just sudo automatically, but gaining privileges on the host seems more ungainly.

[nickchappell]

Handling it the same way NFS mounts are done (asking for it when the VM is being brought up) would be fine with me. Since it doesn't take very long to bring up VMs, if NFS asks for sudo creds first, they'll probably still be cached when you go to edit the host's /etc/hosts.

[reidmv]

Implement it as a command, seems the sanest. Makes it available when needed/wanted without otherwise getting in the way.

[metcalfc]

I'd be fine with a command that just echo'd the lines al la vagrant ssh-config.

[reidmv]

...optionally in Puppet syntax? vagrant hosts puppetize | sudo puppet apply :-)

[metcalfc]

That was my plan. I'm working on this now.

vagrant hosts and vagrant hosts puppetize

[metcalfc]

Submited a pr in #18. Adds the basic support for this. Probably could expand on this to be smarter. But this is a start.

[adrienthebo]

Since GH-18 is merged this is partially solved. The next steps will be automatically updating the host with this information.

[matthewbarr]

Might be interesting to look at https://github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-hostmanager , since this does similar things.

[denizdogan]

I just found this plugin after having problems with vagrant-hostmanager and I guess we could just copy the method that that plugin uses to implement this. The only reason I use a plugin like this in the first place is to update /etc/hosts on my host machine so that I can use easy-to-remember hostnames for accessing my VMs.

[utrotzek]

That feature would be nice! Especially because vagrant-hostmanager does not support IP to hostname mapping for multiple IP's on the same host.