Vagrant: how to set owner to synced/shared folders when this owner is created in the provisioning phase

Question

Vagrantfile (relevant parts)

  config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
    chef.add_recipe "yum"
    # various recipes..
    # in one of these i create the 'localuser' user
  end

  config.vm.synced_folder "./site/frontend", "/var/www/vhosts/site/frontend", :owner=> 'localuser', :group=>'apache', :extra => 'dmode=755,fmode=755'

When i do the first vagrant up i get an erroring on mounting because it can't find localuser (mounting of shared folders comes before the provisioning)

What can i do to have a shared folder with an owner that is created later?

Answer 1

I wasn't aware you could set the owner on a folder like that... is it in the docs?

What I would do is mount the folder and then in the provisioning step set the owner and permissions that way... if the folder doesn't exist until provisioning that I would mount a folder that does exist but create a symlink to it from the mounted folder in the provisioning step.

I also normally create an AFP or Samba server share and access folders on the server that way... its a bit more setup but a lot more powerful than just mounting a shared folder through Vagrant.