# Meeting Notes for December 3rd, 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-december-3rd-2020/17999>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [December 3, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-december-3rd-2020/17999 "2020-12-03T17:37:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![bennyvasquez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/bennyvasquez/32/2559_2.png) [@bennyvasquez](https://discourse.chef.io/u/bennyvasquez)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-december-3rd-2020/17999/1 "2020-12-03T17:37:22Z")

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Below are the meeting notes for this week's 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**

benny Vasquez shared

_It’s a big week for the DevRel team! We’re hiring an additional team member, and we have a Learn Chef update!_

- _We’re hiring for a Developer Advocate position. There’s a little complexity to apply for our this spot, because it’s open to anyone in the US, UK, or Bulgaria. Unfortunately, that requires three separate applications. If you want to apply, chose the appropriate one for you!_ [_US application_](https://www.progress.com/company/careers/developer-advocate-ods2dfwE) _,_ [_UK Application_](https://www.progress.com/company/careers/developer-advocate-oO94dfwY) _,_ [_BG Application_](https://www.progress.com/company/careers/developer-advocate-oP94dfwZ)
- _We also have two new courses that just launched on Learn Chef . Up first is a_ [_Chef 101_](https://learn.chef.io/courses/course-v1:chef+Chef101+Perpetual/about) _, an introduction to automation, the OSS toolkit and Chef’s products and solutions. The other is the much anticipated_ [_Chef Desktop_](https://learn.chef.io/courses/course-v1:chef+Desktop+Perpetual/about) _, the solution for managing all of your Laptop and desktop systems._

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

benny Vasquez shared

_Automate 2 had a release ~10 days ago, allowing you to customize your SAML sign-in session length, along with a couple bug fixes. Release notes here:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20201106153948-released/17979_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20201106153948-released/17979)

**Chef Infra Client**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Infra Client had a release last week pre-US-thanksgiving that increases speed and reduces memory use across platforms. Particularly when installing on windows. Thanks to_ [_@TimothyTitan_](https://github.com/TimothyTitan) _,_ [_@Annih_](https://github.com/Annih) _,_ [_@jaymzh_](https://github.com/jaymzh) _,_ [_@limitusus_](https://github.com/limitusus) _,_ [_@axelrtgs_](https://github.com/axelrtgs) _,_ [_@scarpe01_](https://github.com/scarpe01) _,_ [_@Blorpy_](https://github.com/Blorpy) _,_ [_@chasebolt_](https://github.com/chasebolt) _, and_ [_@ziggythehamster_](https://github.com/ziggythehamster) _for all your help with these improvements and additions (and to_ [_@tas50_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1CDF6JE6) _for listing y’all in the release notes, making you easier to find!)Notes here:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-7-61-released/17984_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-7-61-released/17984)

**Chef Workstation**

benny Vasquez shared

_And finally, Chef Workstation 20.12.187 went out yesterday. This release has some remarkable breaking changes. It removes stove and foodcritic and removes packages for RHEL 6._

[_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-12-187-released/17998_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-12-187-released/17998)

**Other releases**

benny Vasquez shared

_Cookstyle had a relatively big release last week, too. It includes an update to RuboCop, more cops, and a bunch of other improvements._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-7-3-released-with-2-new-chef-cops/17997_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-7-3-released-with-2-new-chef-cops/17997)

tas50 shared

_@ramereth gave us a great fix for Test Kitchen on Windows that was released in Test Kitchen 2.8_ [_https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md_](https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)

_Fauxhai 8.6 came out with macOS 11 data:_ [_https://github.com/chefspec/fauxhai/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md_](https://github.com/chefspec/fauxhai/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Alex Pop shared

_Greeting everyone_

- _The 24h compliance reporting change is in and going out soon. We made other UI changes to better highlight where UTC timezone still applies._
- _Working to better support DNS based external ElasticSearch endpoints._
- _We merged UI changes to the Compliance nodes and control trend graphs to support InSpec waivers._
- _Progressing on the ElasticSearch 7 upgrade epic._
- _We added the ability to filter applications service groups by only connected services_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

- _Audit cookbook functionality has been merged into Chef Infra Client as a new Compliance Phase. This first step is a fully backwards compatible implementation utilizing the existing attribute structure. Expect to see this morph into a config based system in future releases. We're considering this a beta release at this point and you'll see an official announcement most likely in Jan_
- _Our DSC resources were fully refactored and moved to the powershell\_exec helper which should give them some impressive performance improvements_
- _Yum/DNF fix work continues_
- _Work to scope Chef Infra Client 17 is ongoing_

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello Folks!_  
_This week for Chef Infra Server team we have been working on :_

- _Getting the server build with support for sig\_V4 changes tested in Automate, Before that we worked on reviewing all of the changes and testing if want to add support to daytime boundaries with respect to creating cachable URLS._
- _Fixed issues related to the failures seen in the nightly build pipeline._
- _We have tested the rails upgrade changes with supermarket - it might need some updates to fix some verification failures (in unit tests, that we will be working on next)_
- _We have also started adding support for Elasticsearch 7.9.1 to Chef Infra Server._

_That is all for us!_

**Chef Workstation**

mparadise shared

_Ohai folks! We've been working on a few things in Workstation:_ getting a new WS release shipped with the latest Chef Client (thanks\* [_@tas50_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1CDF6JE6) _, as usual!)_

- _onboarding new team members_
- _native M1 support for Workstation_
- _rollouts feature work, which will allow customers to track the end-to-end deployment of an applied policy update as it is deployed_

_to nodes in a policy group.We will also be resuming regular weekly triage meetings at their original time, Wednesdays at 1PM EST/10AM PST_

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Hello from Sous Chefs!_

_It seems replacing me by a few "scripts" has meant a large increase in new releases._

_Here's the list of new releases in the past week:_

- _apache2 8.7.0: Add_ template\_cookbook _property to_ install
- _dhcp 7.2.1: Enhance the pre-service action configuration test to remove compile/converge bug_
- _docker 7.3.0: Updates the_ registry\_mirror _option of_ docker\_service _to be either a string or array. This way multiple mirrors can be configured_
- _dpkg\_autostart 0.4.2: Regression introduced in 0.4.1, of undefined method_ action _being received_
- _fail2ban 6.3.0: Fixed wrong property in_ fail2ban\_jail _and_ fail2ban\_filter _resources_
- _grafana 9.5.1: Removed duplicate attribute_
- _jenkins 8.0.4: Retry jenkins CLI command without authenticating after receiving an HTTP 401_
- _jenkins 8.1.0: Fix the implementation of the cli user/password authentication method_
- _keepalived 5.2.0: Added support for LVS/IPVS scheduler to_ keepalived\_virtual\_server lvs\_sched _property_
- _mariadb 4.1.1: Cookstyle fixes_
- _mariadb 4.1.2: fix default_ libgalera\_smm.so _path on x86\_64 systems_
- _mariadb 4.1.3: Remove unused selinux\_policy cookbook dependency_
- _mariadb 4.1.4: Add back_ selinux\_policy _to install vendored SELinux policies_
- _mariadb 4.2.0: Add_ bootstrap _and_ join _actions to_ mariadb\_galera\_configuration _to bootstrap and join clusters_
- _mysql 9.0.0: New support for MySQL 8 and removed support for MySQL 5.1, 5.5, modernize platform support_
- _nginx 11.0.0: Major refactor of various resources and removal of legacy code_
- _openldap 4.3.0: Add RHEL/CentOS 8 support_
- _postfix 6.0.0: Disabled SSLv3 by default_
- _postgresql 8.0.2: Fix quoting of DROP ROLE query_
- _rsync 3.0.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _rsync 3.0.1: Fixed issue with auto release system_
- _rsyslog 7.2.1: Fixed a bug during the release of 7.2.0_
- _rsyslog 7.3.0: Enabled custom templates for rsyslog_ 35-server-per-host.conf _file_
- _rsyslog 7.4.0: Add facility to choose TLS driver_
- _rsyslog 7.5.0: Fix log directory ownership_
- _ruby\_build 2.1.2: Cookstyle fixes_
- _ruby\_rbenv 3.0.0: Namespace the root\_path variables to avoid naming conflicts with other sous-chef cookbooks_
- _rundeck 5.1.1: Cookstyle fixes_
- _syslog\_ng 1.0.2: Cookstyle fixes_
- _syslog\_ng 1.1.0: Add enable/disable actions to control a configuration item whilst leaving the configuration file in place_
- _syslog\_ng 1.1.1: Remove service action from ruby\_block_
- _vscode 1.0.3: fixed yamllint warning for "on" in the ci workflow_
- _vscode 1.0.4: Cookstyle fixes, fixed extension installation issues, modernize platform support_

_Boy, that was fun compiling that list.. I'm going to have to make a script to do these next week._

_Thanks to_ [_@Xorima_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UDG5853CG) _for getting_ [_@Xorimabot_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U01EY7AA9GS) _working for auto releases._

_I've also been working on improving the openldap cookbook along with finishing up cleaning up the jenkins cookbook in the past week._ [_@nuclearsandwich_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U94PQQA0K) _will likely start helping with the jenkins cookbook as well._

_Here's a_ [_list_](https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+org%3Asous-chefs+archived%3Afalse+sort%3Aupdated-desc) _currently open pull requests that have been recently updated that need some reviews._

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Client:_

- _Released 16.7.61_

_Cinc Workstation:_

- _Released 20.12.187 via the unstable channel_

_As a team of volunteers, we're still very busy with our actual jobs however we're still trying to find time to make progress on the following items:_

- _Windows Cinc Workstation build_
- _MacOS BigSur (11.0) builds_
- _Additional stabilization of Cinc Server and Cinc Workstation_

## **See you next week!**

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