Shaken Fist 0.2.0
The other day we released Shaken Fist version 0.2, and I never got around to announcing it here. In fact, we've done a minor release since then and have another minor release in the wings ready to go out in the next day or so. So what's changed in Shaken Fist between version 0.1 and 0.2? Well, actually kind of a lot... We moved from MySQL to etcd for storage of persistant state. This was partially done because we wanted distributed locking, but it was also because MySQL was a pain to work with. We rearranged our repositories -- the main repository is now in its own github organisation, and the golang REST client, terrform provider, and deployment tooling have moved into their own repositories in that organisation. There is also a prototype javascript client now as well. Some work has gone into making the API service more production grade, although there is still some work to be done there probably in the 0.3 release -- specifically there is a timeout if a response takes more than 300 seconds, which can be the case in launch large VMs where the disk images are not in cache. There were also some…
