[blowski]

Another problem for me is the ephemeral nature of many of the boxes I work on - Vagrant boxes, spot instances on AWS. I suppose I could do this and then export the bash history as part of the teardown process.

At the moment, I get around this by storing as much as I can in searchable scratch files, but this relies on me knowing what to copy. I'm sure there's a better way.

[mrSugar]

Work through ansible and manage your local ansible.log however you wish.

[blowski]

Any way I can do it with Puppet?

[superuser2]

Do what? Puppet doesn't have a facility for running ad-hoc remote shell commands on demand. Sort of the whole point is to not do that.