# Meeting notes for Feb 13, 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-feb-13-2020/16713>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-feb-13-2020/16713 "2020-02-20T17:22:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-feb-13-2020/16713/1 "2020-02-20T17:22:46Z")

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Below are the notes from this week’s meeting

**DevRel/Community**

lnxchk shared

_ChefConf Update!_ [_https://chefconf.io_](https://chefconf.io/)

- _Super Early Bird pricing ends tomorrow! Get your valentine a ticket to a ChefConf! 😃 Seattle: June 1-4; London: June 15-17_
- _CFP acceptances will start going out late next week. Thanks to everyone who submitted, we will have two awesome ChefConfs this year thanks to all of you!_
- _Any and all ChefConf questions,_

[_#chefconf2020_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CQM00GNNL) _channel NYC, we'll see you at DevOps Days NYC in March!_

# This week’s releases

tas50 shared

_You may have also noticed we shipped about 2 dozen knife plugins and core chef libraries. We’ve made some serious progress on the knife performance front which will ship in the next release of Chef Workstation. 3x performance increase for Windows users and 4.5x for Mac users. It’s not quick “snappy” on Windows yet, but we’re getting there. (edited)_

**Automate**

tas50 shared

_The weekly Automate release shipped (20200131232134 for those keeping track) with a pile of fresh new STIG profiles and some nice bug fixes_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20200131232134-released/16663_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20200131232134-released/16663)

**Chef Infra**

tas50 shared

_We also shipped Chef Infra Client 15.8. This comes with a new notify\_group feature for grouping resources to trigger and it also includes several dozen more helpers for writing cookbooks_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-8-23-released/16670_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-8-23-released/16670) _._

_That release is also now fully signed and notarized to meet Apple’s new standards, which does mean you can no longer install a binary into the omnibus install. Not our fault. Sorry_

# Other updates

tas50 shared

_I would also like to ask anyone out there that uses tools like knife-vsphere, knife-vcenter, knife-azure, knife-google, knife-acl, or knife-windows to download the current channel build of Chef Workstation and give it a try. I shuffled around a lot of libraries and I want to make sure it all works before next week._ [_https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/current_](https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/current)

_Oh and also for all the Debian folks out there we’re adding Debian 10 validation to all our products that currently support Debian. Workstation is also now validated against 8/9/10._

**Automate**

AlexPop shared

_Olá from the Automate team!_

- _InSpec Waivers are fully supported by the compliance APIs._
- _Updated and added new compliance profiles, we are at 395 Available Profiles!_
- _Improvements to documentation and release notes_
- _Continuing with code refactoring and cleanup_
- _Fixed an issue where deprecated profiles prevented Automate v1 upgrade to Automate v2_
- _Bug fixes and improvements to the EAS Dashboard._

**Inspec**

cwolfe shared

_The InSpec Team was up to:_

- _Working on a Habitat package issue related to plugins in hab 1.5_
- _Merged updated JSON Schema code_
- _Removed about 50% of metaprogramming in LibraryEvalContext and Resource_
- _Several adjustments to our CI system as we work towards full end-to-end testing_

**Habitat**

sdmacfarlane shared

_From the Habitat team. This week we:_

- _Released 1.5.29_
- _Continued to iterate on origin management via cli_
- _Working on refactoring our cli internals._
- _UI and backend work on package settings for Builder_
- _Improved safety of origin deletion_

**Workstation**

afiune shared

_The workstation team finished work to add a brand new Preferences dialog to the Chef Workstation App, this is only available for macOS users but we will work to have parity with Windows and Linux systems. From there you will be able to control things like the startup of the app at boot, automatic updates and features flags! Check it out and give us feedback. Additionally, we are continuing work for the reports inside chef-analyze to be able to add filters to narrow down specific fleet of nodes/cookbooks you want to focus on_

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello! For this week we are have been working on a couple of things:_

- _For terraform we added more scenarios like FIPS, elasticsearch testing to the integration pipeline. We fixed some bugs with some of the scenarios and we added failover for chef-backend scenario in the testing. We did a lot of testing around connection between postgres and azure with ssl enabled._
- _The work for connecting postgres with azure is now merged in and will be available with the next release._
- _Work is in progress to use sig\_v4 connections to s3 buckets instead of sig\_v2. We have identified the libraries that we might be able to move forward with instead of mini\_s3. And starting on testing with erchef pointing straight to it._

**Chef Infra Client**

lamont and tas50 shared

_more chef-sugar helpers and perf improvements and the odd thing here and there for chef 16 like notify\_group_

_we moved the custom resource for manipulating chef-vault secrets into core for chef 16_

_knife-acl has also been moved into core_

_knife-windows will probably also move in._

**Other Community Updates**

BobChaos shared

_I've got a prototype going for those bootstrap tests I mentioned last week: [GitHub - bobchaos/bootstrap\_integration\_test: A terraform template wrapped in test kitchen to test Chef bootstrap operations VS multiple systems](https://github.com/bobchaos/bootstrap_integration_test) I'm going to add support for Windows nodes, then PR the bootstrap fix I've been sitting on. I hope those tests can make their way upstream in due time_

ramereth shared

_I've been working on getting Cinc Workstation builds going, mostly figuring out issues with the MacOS builds which I finally got figured out. Now trying to figure out why it's failing for Windows (thanks for_ [_@afiune_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U2RE29UG7) _for helping us a bit!)_

_We refactored how we build Auditor to match how we're doing it in workstation and released 4.18.85 yesterday_

_I have a PR waiting for tests to finish for Client that has similar fixes. We should be shipping 15.8 later today hopefully if all goes well_

_We haven't started looking into the signed MacOS binaries yet. That will likely happen later._

_I'm hoping we'll have something to test with on workstation soon, but we're still a long ways away from having it trademark free. Oh and thanks to_ [_@tarcinil_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U89SQJQRH) _for helping us with golang stuff!_

## **See you in next week!**

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