vagrant : how to get hostonly ip address from within chef recipe?

Question

I am trying to retrieve the hostonly ip address specified in the Vagrantfile:

config.vm.network :hostonly, "33.33.33.33"

in a recipe file :

mycookbook/files/default/xdebug.ini

[xdebug]
zend_extension = "/usr/lib/php/modules/xdebug.so"
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"
xdebug.remote_host = "***HERE***"
xdebug.trace_output_dir = "/tmp"
xdebug.max_nesting_level = 200

Answer 1

node[:network][:interfaces][:eth1][:addresses].detect{|k,v| v[:family] == "inet" }.first

Actually you can find out all the node attributes by logging into the VM (with vagrant ssh) and running shef. And inspect there the node object.

Answer 2

If you want to retrieve the IP of the Host machine, you can use this:

in your recipe:

your/cookbook/path/recipes/default.rb

ip = node[:network][:interfaces][:eth1][:addresses].detect{|k,v| v[:family] == "inet" }.first
remote_ip = ip.gsub /\.\d+$/, '.1'

template "/etc/php.d/xdebug.ini" do
  source "xdebug.ini.erb"
  owner "root"
  group "root"
  mode 0644
  variables({
              "remote_host" => remote_ip
            })
end

and in the template: your/cookbook/path/templates/default/xdebug.ini.erb

[xdebug]
zend_extension = "/usr/lib/php/modules/xdebug.so"
xdebug.profiler_append = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 0
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "/tmp"
xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%t-%s"
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"
xdebug.remote_host = <%= @remote_host %>
xdebug.trace_output_dir = "/tmp"
xdebug.max_nesting_level = 200