# Chef-runner v0.3.0

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-runner-v0-3-0/5587>\
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**Created:** [July 31, 2014, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-runner-v0-3-0/5587 "2014-07-31T09:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mathias\_Lafeldt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@Mathias\_Lafeldt](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Mathias_Lafeldt)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-runner-v0-3-0/5587/1 "2014-07-31T09:05:07Z")

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Ohai Chefs!

chef-runner version 0.3.0 is out!

> <https://github.com/mlafeldt/chef-runner/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v030-jul-30-2014>

The goal of this release is to “ssh all the things” in order to  
support any system reachable over SSH. In addition to local Vagrant  
machines, chef-runner can now provision remote machines like EC2  
instances. To achieve this, I made the following changes:

- The argument passed to `-H` now has the format  
`[user@]hostname[:port]`, allowing you to optionally change SSH user  
and port. (Other SSH settings can be set via `~/.ssh/config`.)

- rsync over SSH is used to transfer files to `/tmp/chef-runner` on  
the target machine. chef-runner no longer depends on `/vagrant` being  
mounted.

- With Vagrant, instead of running commands via `vagrant ssh`, feed  
the output of `vagrant ssh-config` into OpenSSH. The same SSH  
configuration is used to upload files with rsync.

Other changes:

- Introduce flexible driver concept (inspired by Test Kitchen). A  
driver is responsible for running commands on and uploading files to a  
machine using whatever mechanism is available. chef-runner currently  
contains drivers for Vagrant and SSH, but more can – and will – be  
added.

- Always transfer files with `rsync --compress` to speed things up.

- Remove Cucumber scenarios. They didn’t add much value to the Go  
tests and were _very_ slow. Now Travis builds are much faster.

- More and better Go tests.

- More and better log messages.

- Option `-h` outputs more useful usage text (the one shown in the README).

Hope you enjoy this release!

-Mathias

PS: The next release will delight users of Test Kitchen. 😉