Erika Heidi has posted the second part of her series looking at creating development environments with Vagrant and Puppet (part one is here). In this new post she talks about the configuration of the newly created environments.

In the first part of this beginner’s guide to Vagrant, we found out how to install Vagrant and get a really basic Ubuntu box up and running. But we need something more: we need to properly set up our development environment, in a fully automated way. Its time to use provisioners to help us with these tasks. For a better understanding of how provisioners work, lets start using a very basic shell script as a provisioner.

She talks about setting up the shell provisioning and how to use it from the Vagrantfile configuration. She includes the example output but notes that there's a better way than making lots of shell scripts for everything - using Puppet. Info about Puppet manifests (its configuration file format) and examples are included. An example is included of using puppet to provision a VM and a hint about things to come (puppet modules).