Vagrant AWS Puppet Rsync

While deploying from vagrant to AWS using vagrant-aws, you may run into an error if you are sharing folders. To share folders on AWS, you would use rsync.

If rsync is not installed on your base AMI, you may run into an issue where you are unable to share your folders and your box will not provision.

Before initializing puppet, you will want to use a script to install rsync.

Here is my vagrant file + custom init script to resolve this issue:

# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "dummy"
  config.ssh.pty = true
  config.vm.define :awsinstance do |awsi|
    # setup ami, aws
    awsi.vm.provider :aws do |aws, override|
        aws.keypair_name = "YOURKEYPAIR"
        aws.access_key_id = ""
        aws.secret_access_key = ""
        aws.region = "us-east-1"
        # debian wheezy 7.6
        aws.ami = "ami-c4ab67ac"
        override.ssh.private_key_path = "YOURPRIVATEKEY"
        override.ssh.username = "USERNAME"
    end
    # setup puppet
    awsi.vm.hostname = "myvm"
    awsi.vm.provision :shell, :path => "shell/init.sh"
    awsi.vm.provision :puppet do |awspuppet|
        awspuppet.manifest_file = "nodes.pp"
        awspuppet.manifests_path = "/myapp/manifests/manifests"
        awspuppet.module_path = "/myapp/manifests/modules"
    end
    # mount folders
    awsi.vm.synced_folder "/myapp/stuff", "/myapp/stuff",
                          owner: "admin",
                          group: "root",
                          :mount_options => ['dmode=775','fmode=775'], type: "rsync"
  end
  config.ssh.forward_agent = false
end

The shell/init.sh script (which is ran before puppet modules are initialized):

#!/bin/sh
$(which rsync > /dev/null 2>&1)
FOUND_RSYNC=$?
if [ "$FOUND_RSYNC" -ne '0' ]; then
    echo 'Attempting to install rsync'
    $(which apt-get > /dev/null 2>&1)
    FOUND_APT=$?
    $(which yum > /dev/null 2>&1)
    FOUND_YUM=$?

    if [ "${FOUND_YUM}" -eq '0' ]; then
        yum -q -y makecache
        yum -q -y install rsync
        echo 'rsync installed.'
        yum -q -y install puppet
        echo 'puppet installed.'
    elif [ "${FOUND_APT}" -eq '0' ]; then
        apt-get -q -y update
        apt-get -q -y install rsync
        echo 'rsync installed.'
        apt-get -q -y install puppet
        echo 'puppet installed.'
    else
        echo 'No package installer available'
    fi
fi
# Set the first portion of this to match the node defined in your manifest
# example node of crunch should be crunch.X
hostname myvm.va.localdomain