Category: Previews

2014

Another Shovey Preview: The Shovey-Jobs Cookbook

Sep 05 2014

About Goiardi

Goiardi is an implementation of the Chef server written in Go. It can run entirely in memory (with optional persistence on disk) or can use MySQL or Postgres as a backend, is self-contained, and runs on many different platforms.

Additional Resources

goiardi-schema: The SQL schema, managed with sqitch, for goiardi.
chef-golang: A golang chef client library.
go-chef: A number of chef libs and utilities written in Go.
docs.opscode.com: The official Chef documentation. The chef client programs are, of course, needed to do much of anything with goiardi.
chef-zero: Another in-memory chef server.
erchef: The official Chef server, written in Erlang.
omnibus-chef-server: Omnibus installer for erchef.
knife-goiardi-event-log: Knife plugin for the goiardi event log.
knife-goiardi-reporting: Forked knife plugin for goiardi's reporting facilities.
schob: The goiardi shovey client.
knife-shove: Knife plugin forked from knife-push for managing shovey jobs.
shovey-jobs: chef cookbook for installing and configuring shovey on a node. In-progress.