[rad_gruchalski]

Hey, thanks for the shout-out! I'm doing what I can to make the provisioner work as reasonably as possible. It would be awesome to get it into the core, but indeed, there's no pick up from Hashicorp. It might be that Ansible is just too wide of a scope to settle on one man's implementation, there are so many different workflows for Ansible, some of which going way past the Terraform provisioner.

It's easy to imagine that merging my PR would open a Pandora's box, leading to people requesting full Ansible support, without really thinking through if they make sense in the context of Terraform.

The one thing that would make sense for Hashicorp, is to figure out how to distribute provisioners, similar to https://registry.terraform.io for modules. Distributing provisioners faces the following problems:

- it's not possible to use terraform init to fetch provisioners from the registry: https://github.com/radekg/terraform-provisioner-ansible/pull...

- provisioner file name can't contain os / architecture in the file name requiring manual deployment programs: https://github.com/radekg/terraform-provisioner-ansible#inst...

I personally like the fact that provisioners do not need to be in the core but distribution is a bit of a pain.

[mitchellh]

Thanks for the contribution. So we definitely want to get Ansible in and there is a lot of pressure to do so. At this time the focus is 100% on 0.12 core and then we're going to take a look at provisioners again. Sorry for the delay.

[rad_gruchalski]

Thank you. I'll keep maintaining the PR until then.