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Why would you use the shell provider instead of the native puppet support?

Sometimes you want to tweak your base-box before running puppet, in that case, using a shell script might be a good idea. I started using the shell provider for deploying a puppetmaster. This way, I can initially bootstrap the puppetmaster using puppet apply and then have further configuration done by letting further configuration be done by just running puppet agent like I would in an actual environment.

The second advantage is that I sync my complete puppet tree to /etc/puppet vagrant box, making the differences with an actual deploy even smaller. If you need custom configuration files, you can use the proper file paths while developing and/or put them in your puppet folder.
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