Chef 360 Platform 1.7.3 Released!

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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 1.7.3 of Chef 360 Platform.

Chef 360 Platform 1.7.3 adds InSpec profile support through the Automate Connector, introduces a backup upload workflow for large file migrations, provides configurable replica scaling for the Automate Connector in on-premises deployments, and resolves bugs affecting login and node enrollment.

Prerequisites

Before upgrading to Chef 360 Platform 1.7.3, you must be running at least version 1.7.1. For more information, see the supported upgrade path.

New features

  • Automate Connector InSpec profile support: The Automate Connector now proxies Chef InSpec compliance profile requests through Chef Declarative State Management (DSM) to Chef Automate, letting nodes managed through Chef 360 fetch InSpec profiles and run compliance scans end-to-end.

  • upload-backup CLI command for large file migrations: A new upload-backup CLI command lets you upload Chef Infra Server backup files larger than 5 GB to Chef 360 Platform. Previously, large backup archives couldn’t be reliably uploaded through the S3 path; this command removes that limitation for customers migrating large datasets.

  • Automate Connector replica scaling: You can now configure the minimum number of ingest service pods for on-premises Automate Connector deployments from the Admin Console. The default minimum pod count is 1, and the setting includes a description of how changing the pod count affects Automate Connector performance, autoscaling behavior, and CPU utilization.

Bug fixes

  • WAF rules blocking Automate Connector requests: Fixed an issue where WAF rules blocked Automate Connector data-collector requests with CrossSiteScripting_Body pattern matches, causing 403 Forbidden errors during Chef Infra Client runs forwarded through the connector.

  • Backup upload failures in FIPS environments: Fixed backup upload failures with “OpenSSL does not support FIPS mode” errors when importing Chef Infra Server backups into Chef 360 clusters operating in FIPS-compliant environments.

  • Chef 360 login page rendering issues: Fixed an issue where elements on the Chef 360 login page didn’t render or respond correctly.

  • Node enrollment in proxy-restricted environments: Fixed an issue where chef-node-enrollment-cli ignored http_proxy, https_proxy, and no_proxy environment variables, causing node enrollment to hang in proxy-restricted environments when hab-sup couldn’t download required packages.

Supported skill versions

This release supports the following skill versions.

Skill Skill name Habitat package Version Change summary
Courier Runner courier-runner chef-platform/courier-runner 1.5.19
Gohai chef-gohai chef-platform/chef-gohai 1.2.57
InSpec Interpreter inspec-interpreter chef-platform/inspec-interpreter 1.0.24
Node Management Agent node-management-agent chef-platform/node-management-agent 1.1.18
Restart Interpreter restart-interpreter chef-platform/restart-interpreter 1.0.21
Shell Interpreter shell-interpreter chef-platform/shell-interpreter 1.0.18
Infra Client Interpreter chef-client-interpreter chef-platform/chef-client-interpreter 1.0.20
Ansible Interpreter ansible-interpreter chef-platform/ansible-interpreter 0.1.11