Amongst the various improvements and fixes in Gru orchestration framework one of the highlights of version 0.5.0 of the project is the added support for managing VMware vSphere environments.

Latest version of Gru orchestration framework ships with a new feature called triggers.

Traditional configuration management systems perform operations on the target systems they manage after doing topological sorting of the operations that need to be performed.

One of the projects I work on during my spare time these days is Gru, which is an orchestration and configuration management framework written in Go and Lua.

The membership test operators in Python make things easy when we need to test whether a given item is contained within a given container or mapping object instance.

Gopher Lua is a Lua 5.1 VM and compiler written in Go.

For the past few months I’ve continued working on my first Go project and overall I am very pleased with how the project evolved as a whole.

I’ve been continuing to improve Gru over the past days and one thing I thought would be nice to have is a way to express commands in Gru in a declarative way. That way I would not have to bother about the underlying details about a minion and have an easy way to express things, e.g. install packages, manage services, deploy configurations, etc.

During the last few months or so I’ve been playing with Go in my spare time in order to get myself familiar with the language and build some experience with it.

go-vcr is a Go package which allows you to record and replay your HTTP interactions, in order to provide fast, deterministic and accurate testing of your code.