[chef] Re: goiardi 0.8.0 & shovey

[AJ Christensen < >]

You're a machine Jeremy, looking forward to finally meeting you at the
Summit. Great work on the shovey release.

--aj

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Jeremy Bingham 
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 wrote:
> Just in time for Chef Summit, I'd like to announce the release of goiardi
> 0.8.0 "Hojotoho! Hojotoho!". This release brings "shovey", a goiardi
> facility for running jobs on nodes without a chef-client run. It's similar
> to Chef Push, although the implementation is rather different - shovey is
> built into goiardi, rather than running in a separate push-server, and it
> uses serf to send its commands out rather than polling zeromq.
>
> Shovey with goiardi isn't very useful without a way to execute or manage the
> jobs, which is why there is also schob 0.1.0 "Heiaha! Heiaha!", the shovey
> client, and knife-shove 0.6.0 "Helmwige! Hier!", a knife plugin forked from
> knife-push to manage shovey jobs.
>
> There are releases:
>
> https://github.com/ctdk/goiardi/releases/tag/v0.8.0
> https://github.com/ctdk/schob/releases/tag/v0.1.0
> https://github.com/ctdk/knife-shove/releases/tag/v0.6.0
>
> And there is documentation:
>
> https://github.com/ctdk/goiardi/blob/master/README.md#shovey
> https://github.com/ctdk/schob/blob/master/README.md
> https://github.com/ctdk/knife-shove/blob/master/README.rdoc
>
> Blog post is at https://github.com/ctdk/knife-shove/blob/master/README.rdoc.
> A better cookbook for the shovey client, and a cookbook for goiardi itself,
> are coming soon.
>
> Thanks, and if you're coming to the Summit I'll see you there.
>
> -j