[chef] goiardi 0.5.0 released, now with MySQL support

[Jeremy Bingham < >]

There's a new version of goiardi, a chef server implemented in Go, out that adds support for MySQL as a backend. It can either run in-memory, like chef-zero (optionally freezing its data and index to save files), or use MySQL.

Behavior-wise, it's quite close to official chef server now. Assuming authentication is enabled, it passes all the important chef-pedant tests. There are a few areas where chef server and goiardi differ because of differences in how authentication is handled, how the depsolver runs (chef server chugs along finding all the inconsistencies, while goiardi immediately throws its hands up at the first problem), and some cookbook behavior where chef-pedant expects to have an empty array persist. These differences do not seem to affect how knife and chef-client run, however.

If your so inclined, it works fine with chef-webui as well. It wouldn't cluster well at this time, however, because the search and indexing functionality is inside goiardi - search and indexing would need to be moved to a separate process, or else the goiardi processes would need to communicate with each other to share updates.

Plans are afoot to improve it further; a few folks have asked about postgres support, and I have a list of issues to address to address to make it better. Right now, though, it works fine, and it's seeing some use for testing other software.

Goiardi can be found at https://github.com/ctdk/goiardi, and the README and godocs explain how to set it up and run it. Installation and running it is pretty straightforward, but does require installing go (and possibly MySQL) - there aren't any binaries or packages available at this time.

Happy agitating, in a stormy fashion,

-j