Deprecation Notice: Ansible --inventory-file flag deprecated in upcoming Ansible 2.23

[jimblue]

Vagrant version

Vagrant 2.4.9

Host operating system

macOS 26.0.1

Guest operating system

Ubuntu 22.04

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Description

When using the Ansible provisioner in Vagrant, a deprecation warning appears with recent versions of Ansible (2.18+):

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: The '--inventory-file' argument is deprecated.
This feature will be removed from ansible-core version 2.23.

This message occurs because Vagrant currently calls Ansible with the --inventory-file flag, which is now deprecated in favor of --inventory.

Expected behavior

Vagrant should call Ansible with the --inventory flag instead of --inventory-file, to ensure forward compatibility with Ansible 2.23 and beyond.

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References

• Ansible changelog mentioning --inventory-file deprecation

• Deprecation message from Ansible itself:

  The '--inventory-file' argument is deprecated. This feature will be removed from ansible-core version 2.23.
  

[cavcrosby]

I've already opened a PR for the described issue here: #13733.