vagrant is serialized and takes a lot of time compare to simple reboot.
See the benchmarks below for 3 VMs:
[leseb@rick docker]$ time ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS="-F
/home/leseb/reproduce-ci/tmp.zgGC7d5mIC/build/workspace/ceph-ansible/tests/functional/centos/7/docker/vagrant_ssh_config" ansible-playbook -i /home/leseb/reproduce-ci/tmp.zgGC7d5mIC/build/workspace/ceph-ansible/tests/functional/centos/7/docker/hosts reboot.yml
PLAY [mons]
****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
[leseb@rick docker]$ time vagrant reload
==> mon0: Halting domain...
==> mon0: Starting domain.
==> mon0: Waiting for domain to get an IP address...
==> mon0: Waiting for SSH to become available...
==> mon0: Creating shared folders metadata...
==> mon0: Rsyncing folder:
/home/leseb/reproduce-ci/tmp.zgGC7d5mIC/build/workspace/ceph-ansible/tests/functional/centos/7/docker/
=> /home/vagrant/sync
==> mon0: Machine already provisioned. Run `vagrant provision` or use
the `--provision`
==> mon0: flag to force provisioning. Provisioners marked to run always
will still run.
==> mon1: Halting domain...
==> mon1: Starting domain.
==> mon1: Waiting for domain to get an IP address...
==> mon1: Waiting for SSH to become available...
==> mon1: Creating shared folders metadata...
==> mon1: Rsyncing folder:
/home/leseb/reproduce-ci/tmp.zgGC7d5mIC/build/workspace/ceph-ansible/tests/functional/centos/7/docker/
=> /home/vagrant/sync
==> mon1: Machine already provisioned. Run `vagrant provision` or use
the `--provision`
==> mon1: flag to force provisioning. Provisioners marked to run always
will still run.
==> mon2: Halting domain...
==> mon2: Starting domain.
==> mon2: Waiting for domain to get an IP address...
==> mon2: Waiting for SSH to become available...
==> mon2: Creating shared folders metadata...
==> mon2: Rsyncing folder:
/home/leseb/reproduce-ci/tmp.zgGC7d5mIC/build/workspace/ceph-ansible/tests/functional/centos/7/docker/
=> /home/vagrant/sync
==> mon2: Machine already provisioned. Run `vagrant provision` or use
the `--provision`
==> mon2: flag to force provisioning. Provisioners marked to run always
will still run.
real 1m31.850s
user 0m7.387s
sys 0m0.796s
Reboot via Ansible: 0m35.112s
Reboot via vagrant: 1m31.850s