[chef] Announcing chef-runner v0.2.0 (Go rewrite)

[Mathias Lafeldt < >]

Hi!

Last Friday I released chef-runner v0.2.0 [1]. This release is a
complete rewrite of the chef-runner shell script in Go -- a real
programming language that makes it easier to maintain and extend the
code base. (To be honest, I also wanted to learn more Go.)

The rewrite includes the following changes:

* chef-runner no longer uses Vagrant's Chef configuration. Instead, it
creates its own local `.chef-runner` folder where configuration data
and cookbooks are stored. This is the first step towards supporting
systems other than Vagrant.
* chef-runner no longer supports long option names like `--host` and
`--json-attributes`. All original short options are still supported
though.
* rsync now only copies actual cookbook files and is run in verbose
mode by default.
* Events are now properly logged to the console (in color!). The log
level can be controlled via the `CHEF_RUNNER_LOG` environment
variable.
* There are new scripts for bootstrapping, building, and testing the
project in `script/`.

Note that, since chef-runner is mainly shelling out to other tools,
there's no noticeable speed improvement over the original shell
implementation.

Hope you enjoy the Go port. More features to come soon!

-Mathias

[1] 
<https://github.com/mlafeldt/chef-runner/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v020-jul-18-2014>