[SOLVED] Using Vagrant on cloud CI services

Using Vagrant on cloud CI services

Are there any cloud CI services that allow Vagrant VMs to run using VirtualBox as a provider?

Early investigation shows this seems not to be possible with Travis CI or Circle CI, although the vagrant-aws plugin allows for the use of AWS servers as a Vagrant provider. Is this correct?

Solution

Many CI services are not allowing to run Vagrant via LXC or Virtualbox as it will require nested virtualization (running VM in VM) or a pure bare metal server provisioned for you.

Current 2021 (updated) situation:

Github Actions can do it.
Travis was able to run Vagrant with some workarounds.
AppVeyor allows running VirtualBox (non-free plans).
You can't under CodeShip
You can't under CircleCI
Don't know about other CI services, will investigate further.

I hope during the time we'll see CI services allowing to run Vagrant with Virtualbox or LXC, but for now Docker (with its limitations) is the only option.

Personally, I would be happy to use it for integration tests against different platforms/linux distros via Test-Kitchen CI or similar.