We were essentially updating ansible twice here.

vagrant/release/devstack/Vagrantfile

@@ -26,11 +26,6 @@ if [ -n "$OPENEDX_RELEASE" ]; then
     -e xqueue_version=$OPENEDX_RELEASE \
   "
   CONFIG_VER=$OPENEDX_RELEASE
-  # Need to ensure that the configuration repo is updated
-  # The vagrant-devstack.yml playbook will also do this, but only
-  # after loading the playbooks into memory.  If these are out of date,
-  # this can cause problems (e.g. looking for templates that no longer exist).
-  /edx/bin/update configuration $CONFIG_VER
 else
   CONFIG_VER="master"
 fi