We are delighted to announce the availability of version 1.6.0 of Chef 360 Platform.
This release:
- Expands the Declarative State Management (DSM) experience in Chef 360 Platform
- Improves reliability and self-service administration
- Delivers important security and usability updates across the platform
New features
- DSM in the Chef 360 User Interface (UI): You can view and manage DSM nodes and related objects (such as cookbooks, roles, databags, environments, and clients) directly from the Chef 360 Platform web interface, without relying on API or CLI access.
- Custom policies for custom roles: Organization administrators can create, update, and delete custom authorization policies and attach them to custom roles using the UI.
- Update assemblies to the latest skill versions: Assemblies surface the latest available skill versions and provide guided update flows with confirmation feedback in the UI.
Improvements
Improved DSM API commands:
- The identity APIs return structured DSM user creation status, including success, failure, and error details.
- New API commands to retry DSM organization creation and admin user assignment if the initial provisioning partially fails.
Bug fixes
- Custom TLS certificates apply correctly
- Kubernetes image pull failures have been resolved
Minimum hardware requirement
The minimum hardware requirement for Chef 360 Platform is as follows (because DSM is included by default):
- 32 GB RAM
- 16 vCPUs
- 200 GB disk space
Supported skill versions
| Skill | Skill name | Habitat package | Version | Change summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Courier Runner | courier-runner | chef-platform/courier-runner | 1.5.7 | Courier runner handles interpreter exit codes gracefully |
| Gohai | chef-gohai | chef-platform/chef-gohai | 1.2.38 | Improvements in skill configuration validation |
| InSpec Interpreter | inspec-interpreter | chef-platform/inspec-interpreter | 1.0.15 | System environment variables inherited by InSpec at execution |
| Node Management Agent | node-management-agent | chef-platform/node-management-agent | 1.1.6 | Improvement in subnet mask detection for node attributes |
| Restart Interpreter | restart-interpreter | chef-platform/restart-interpreter | 1.0.10 | |
| Shell Interpreter | shell-interpreter | chef-platform/shell-interpreter | 1.0.9 | |
| Infra Client Interpreter | chef-client-interpreter | chef-platform/chef-client-interpreter | 1.0.9 | |
| Ansible Interpreter | ansible-interpreter | chef-platform/ansible-interpreter | 0.1.6 |