# Meeting notes for Aug 27th, 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-aug-27th-2020/17611>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [August 31, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-aug-27th-2020/17611 "2020-08-31T16:33:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-aug-27th-2020/17611/1 "2020-08-31T16:33:45Z")

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Below are the meeting notes for the August 27th Community Meeting, a text-based meeting held weekly in #community-meetings on our community slack, which you can join: [https://community-slack.chef.io/](https://community-slack.chef.io/)

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**DevRel/Community**

tas50 shared

_First up if you're new this week scroll up to last week and_ [_take the quick survey_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/C1P99AXGV/p1597942095068800) _._

_And second I wanted to remind people that Hacktoberfest is coming up:_ [_https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com_](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/)

_Various Chef teams will be participating in Hacktoberfest this year so be sure to sign up there for updates from the Hacktoberfest team. It's a great way to get some new swag while making OSS fixes. There's various levels of entry into the various Chef projects from docs to inspec/chef resources and we have OSS code in Typescript, Go, Ruby, Erlang, and Rust. We'll be giving more updates on our tagging of issues we think are perfect for first time contributors as we get closer to October._

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

tas50 shared

_The Automate team shipped Automate 20200816214709 which updates the embedded Chef Infra Server to 14.0.22 to resolve sporadic 500 errors some users were seeing._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20200816214709-released/17589_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20200816214709-released/17589)

**Chef Habitat**

tas50 shared

_The Habitat team released Habitat 1.6.139 which includes commands for interacting with the new RBAC functionality in Builder, a new_ hab sup restart _command for restarting just the sup, and the deprecation of several older hab commands._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-habitat-1-6-139-released/17591_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-habitat-1-6-139-released/17591)

**Chef Inspec**

tas50 shared

_Just this morning the InSpec folks released 4.22.22, which is not only a great version number, but also has some fancy new updates. This includes new resources for testing Windows Firewall policy/rules, a new junit2 formatter for those that love XML. This release also includes some nice under the hood tweaks like macOS Big Sur testers, Ruby 2.6.6, and a reduced number of dependencies for smaller packages_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-22-22-released/17595_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-22-22-released/17595)

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

_The chef\_client\_updater cookbook 3.11.1 was shipped with a fix for license acceptance when updating from legacy releases to Chef Infra Client \>= 15.0_

_The chef-client cookbook shipped with several backported resource updates from Chef Infra Client's codebase including the ability to set the nice level in the chef\_client\_cron cookbook_ [_https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/chef-client#changelog_](https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/chef-client#changelog)

_chef-server cookbook 5.6.0 shipped with the ability to pass options into the chef-ingredient resource:_ [_https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/chef-server#changelog_](https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/chef-server#changelog)

[jaymzh](https://app.slack.com/team/U293A0VB5) shared

_I've contributed Windows Target support to Taste Tester (_ [_https://github.com/facebook/taste-tester/_](https://github.com/facebook/taste-tester/) _), Facebook's Chef Testing solution. It can now fully handle testing, untesting, and tunnelling on remote Windows nodes. It does require SSH be running and the default shell be Powershell, but that's how you run your systems anyway, right? 🙂 Version 0.0.19 has this new feature, simply use_ -w _to tell Taste-Tester to use powershell on the other end instead of shell._

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Alex Pop shared

_Greetings from the Automate team!_

- _We merged a lot of documentation improvements this past week._

- _Enabled proto linting for more API endpoint._

- _Added a new endpoint that allows CSV and JSON download of the event-feed events._

- _Added the chef org and chef server URL to the event feed API._

- _Continued with the compliance reporting improvements for the last 24h_

- _The compliance profiles that ship with Automate have been updated_

**Chef Habitat**

sdmacfarlane shared

_Greetings from the Habitat team! Short update this week:_

- _Overhaul and refactoring of keys_
- _Starting implementation work on new job scheduler_
- _Adding project settings deletion capability_
- _Unpacking lots of good information from RustConf last week_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_Here's Chef Infra Client:_

- _Updates to the platforms we build Infra Client on: s390x is back and we've added testers for macOS 11.0 (Big Sur)_
- _Investigating the use of autoload in ruby speed up our app startup time. The current work has shaved about 30% off the startup time on Windows_
- _Ohai is now using chef-utils for finding binaries and shelling out. This gives us a consistent codebase for shelling out and resolves issues finding binaries as well as shelling out on non-English systems_
- _Ohai is also moving forward with target mode support so you can use Ohai plugins remotely to gather system information_
- _Added a new chef\_client\_launchd resource with some really nice improvements over the old chef-client::launchd recipe_
- _Added the ability to set the nice level for the chef-client process in chef\_client\_cron_
- _Improved the knife config commands with new shorter command names and improved table output on small screens_

**Chef Inspec**

schwad shared

_Hello from the InSpec team! We have a new release! Today we officially dropped_ 4.22.22 _(so many 2's!)_

_Here’s what’s new in this release:_

- _We have new_ windows\_firewall _and_ windows\_firewall\_rule _resources!_
- _The new_ junit2 _reporter is now available! The_ junit2 _reporter shows the standard JUnit specification in XML format, and is recommended for all new users of JUnit_
- _We added a test in preparation for the macOS Big Sur (11.0) beta release_
- _We converted the legacy_ junit _reporter into a plugin. Nothing changed about using the_ junit _reporter, but it’s a great example of a plugin if you want to build your own!_
- _There’s more more robust Darwin operating system detection_
- _There were removed unused dependencies and the_ inspec _gem no longer ships with the readme file- so InSpec is lighter!_
- _Omnibus builds now use Ruby 2.6.6 for improved security_
- _The_ mysql\_session _resource works again with_ stdout _,_ stderr _, and_ exit\_status _parameters_

_Backward Incompatibilities_

- _We no longer build packages for Debian 8 as it is considered end-of-life_

_Much of this work came in during the InSpec “quiet period” - we’re so grateful to folks who contribute to make InSpec better and wanted to do an especial shout-out this week to the one and only_ [_@tas50_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1CDF6JE6) _who worked hard on many of the PRs released this week._

_Also a massive thanks to_ [_@cwolfe_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U7C4N32EQ) _who stepped up and helped out in a massive way while I was gone for much of the last two weeks. You’re awesome!_

_If you want to peek at InSpec internals or have a crack at OSS we have added more issues with the_ Good first issue _label check it out!_

[_https://github.com/inspec/inspec/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Good+first+issue%22_](https://github.com/inspec/inspec/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Good+first+issue%22)

_As always be sure to join the 1700+-strong community at the_ [_#inspec_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/C1XB6U6MN) _channel to keep up with the conversation!_

**Chef Workstation**

tball shared

_Howdy! This week the Chef Workstation team enabled FIPS builds for the Workstation package. This will work the same as it does for Chef Infra or ChefDK - if you have FIPS enabled in a RHEL/Centos or Windows kernel, the Ruby components of Chef Workstation will run in FIPS mode. The non-Ruby components (Chef Workstation App, the Upgrade Lab) do not currently support FIPS. These packages are available in the_ current _channel and will be released to_ stable _next week. Non-FIPS users should not see any difference. Otherwise we have been heads down fixing bugs, merging PRs, and working on our next feature._

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_It's been a busy week of releases!_

_aptly has been released at 2.2.0:_

- _Changed the_ node['aptly']['gpg']['key-tpye'] _attribute to_ node['aptly']['gpg']['key-type'] _. **WARNING** : This change may break existing cookbooks! Please adjust as needed._

_percona has been released at 1.1.0:_

- _Add devel package attribute to client recipe_

_ruby\_rbenv has been released at 2.5.1:_

- _Add placeholder for spec directory to tests run properly_
- _Fix InSpec tests_
- _Fix Ubuntu 18.04 dependency: libssl-dev_

_java has been released at 8.3.2:_

- _Add aarch64 installation candidate for Corretto_

_nginx has been released at 10.2.0:_

- _Add centos 8 support to cookbook_
- _Disable nginx dnf module when installing from repo_
- _Added 'provides' to the resources_

_nginx has been released at 10.3.0:_

- _added override\_package\_name to nginx\_install to allow overriding the name of the package requesting to be installed. (thanks_ [_@majormoses_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U2T2SUV5Z) _)_

_postgresql 8.0.0 has been released:_

- _Bumped default version of postgresql to 12_
- _Added support for dnf by disabling the postgresql module on repo configuration_
- _Add support for the pgdg-common repository_
- _Add provides to resources_
- _Add tests for currently supported postgresql releases_
- _remove need to surround extension names with "" if they contain a '-'_
- _resolved cookstyle error: libraries/helpers.rb:43:7 convention: Style/RedundantAssignment_
- _resolved cookstyle error: libraries/helpers.rb:46:1 convention: Layout/EmptyLinesAroundMethodBody_
- _resolved cookstyle error: libraries/helpers.rb:46:1 convention: Layout/TrailingWhitespace_

_gpg 1.2.0 has been released:_

- _Comment out enforce\_idempotency in kitchen.dokken.yml so tests work_
- _Update/Remove the platforms we test against_
- _Fix support for pinentry\_mode on Ubuntu 16.04_

_aptly 2.3.0 has been released:_

- _Ability to edit existing mirror configuration_
- _Added missing properties to aptly\_mirror resource_
- _Changed aptly\_mirror resource's property architectures to use node['aptly']['architectures'] rather than an empty list which was needed for idempotent mirror edits_

_In progress PRs:_

- _consul: Only set_ name _if the parameters are not an array_
- _mariadb: Fix password issue_
- _grafana: Feature/support https and url\_path\_prefix_
- _ruby\_rbenv: Namespace the run\_state variable_

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Cinc Client:_

- _Awaiting review on PR to move dist implementation into chef-utils (_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/9834_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/9834) _) -- probably should remove "WIP" from that PR_

_Cinc Auditor:_

- _4.22.22 is currently being built and will be released later today (hopefully)_

_Cinc Workstation:_

- _20.8.125 is having build problems on MacOS and it's release has been delayed_
- _We hope to get this resolved soon and a release out as it's also affecting the new auditor build_

_Cinc Server:_

- _Set test to reconfigure so it can run was merged (_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/server/-/merge\_requests/9_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/server/-/merge_requests/9) _)_
- _Current blocker: Unable to run cinc-server-ctl smoke tests inside Docker container (_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/server/-/issues/6_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/server/-/issues/6) _)_
- _We're working on deploying a VirtualBox GitLab runner as a workaround_

## **See you Thursday!**

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