New Command: vagrant rebuild

[gwagner]

Right now i have an alias to vagrant destroy --force && vagrant up for machines that i want to tear all the way down and stand back up. It would be nice if there was a vagrant rebuild command that can optionally take --force or a machine name (in a multi machine environment) that would destroy and up a machine in a single command.

[mitchellh]

I'm open to this idea, but I wonder if it makes more sense as a vagrant reload flag, such as vagrant reload --destroy?

/cc @sethvargo

[sethvargo]

I've admittedly thought about this a few times, to the point where I have a bash alias that does it. I named it vnuke and it runs destroy + up.

I personally like adding a --destroy flag to reload, since I think it maps nicely to existing UXes.

[gwagner]

vagrant reload --destroy would work well, except i think --destroy is the wrong word to use.

vagrant reload --full may be a little less confusing?

[mitchellh]

@gwagner I think --destroy is the right word because we need to convey that we will destroy your machine and therefore all data (on the machine) will be lost. I don't want someone accidentally doing this...

[ggiamarchi]

I arrive after the PR, sorry about that. I think using the reload command to destroy a machine and recreate it can be very confusing, even with an explicit option like --destroy.

Why about introduce a new command vagrant rebuild ?

[gwagner]

@mitchellh based on that explanation, i agree with your point completely!

[fgrehm]

Any thoughts on having it as a separate command, allowing for additional customization (like rebooting with a different provider)?

I experimented with that on https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-pristine and would be more than happy to submit a PR bringing that functionality into core 😄

[berendt]

At the moment the reload command is used to apply modifications in the Vagrantfile to an already running box. From my POV a --destroy option does not makes sense for the reload command. It is not longer a reload when we first destroy the instance. I think introducing a new command rebuild is the better way.

[sethvargo]

@fgrehm that looks very interesting to me 😄. I think that behavior and UX is what we are looking for here. pristine is also an interesting choice since it echos with gem pristine. I like it!

[berendt]

@fgrehm Do you want to bring up a PR to propose to add vagrant-pristine to core?

[fgrehm]

Yup, hopefully at some point this week!