Chef Workstation 0.8.7 Released!

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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 0.8.7 of Chef Workstation.

Chef Infra Client

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 15.1 to 15.2 with new and improved resources and support for RHEL 8. See the Chef Infra Client 15.2 Release Notes for a complete list of new and improved functionality.

Chef InSpec

Chef InSpec has been updated from 4.7.3 to 4.10.4 with the following changes:

  • Fixed handling multiple triggers in the windows_task resource
  • Fixed exceptions when resources are used with incompatible transports
  • Un-deprecated the be_running matcher on the service resource
  • Added sys_info.manufacturer and sys_info.model resources
  • Added ip6tables resource

Cookstyle

Cookstyle has been updated from 5.0 to 5.1.19 with twenty-four new Chef specific cops to detect, and in many cases, to auto-correct errors in your cookbook code. With the release of Cookstyle 5.1, we have started the process of replacing Foodcritic with Cookstyle. Cookstyle offers a modern configuration system, auto-correction, and a faster and more reliable engine thanks to RuboCop. We will continue to port useful rules from Foodcritic to Cookstyle, as well as add rules that were not possible in the legacy Foodcritic engine. See the Cookstyle 5.1 Release Notes for a complete list of new rules.

kitchen-azurerm

kitchen-azurerm has been updated from 0.14.8 to 0.14.9, which adds a new use_ephemeral_osdisk configuration option. See Microsoft's Empheral OS Disk Announcement for more information on this new feature.

kitchen-ec2

kitchen-ec2 has been updated from 3.0.1 to 3.1.0 with several new features:

  • Added support for SSH through Session Manager. Thanks @awiddersheim
  • Adds support for searching for multiple security groups, as well as searching by group name. Thanks @bdwyertech
  • Allows asking for multiple instance types and subnets for spot pricing. Thanks @vmiszczak-teads

kitchen-vagrant

kitchen-vagrant has been updated from 1.5.2. to 1.6.0. This new version properly truncates the instance name to avoid hitting the 100 character limit in Hyper-V, and also updates the hostname length limit on Windows from 12 characters to 15 characters. Thanks @Xorima and @PowerSchill.

knife-ec2

knife-ec2 has beeen updated from 1.0.8 to 1.0.12. This new version includes multiple fixes for network configuration setup, a new --cpu-credits option for launching T2/T3 instances as unlimited, and fixes for issues with attaching emphemeral disks.

Get the Build

If you are running the experimental application you can download this version from the menu after the app next update check. You can also download binaries directly from downloads.chef.io.

As always, we welcome your feedback and invite you to contact us directly or share your email. Thanks for using Chef Workstation!