# Meeting notes for February 11th, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-february-11th-2021/19544>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [February 11, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-february-11th-2021/19544 "2021-02-11T18:54:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-february-11th-2021/19544/1 "2021-02-11T18:54:18Z")

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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 another lovely day in the neighborhood, and in case you missed it I wanted to share a link to this blog post from Sudhir:_ [_https://blog.chef.io/progress-commitment-to-the-chef-open-source-community_](https://blog.chef.io/progress-commitment-to-the-chef-open-source-community)

_We’re also starting to share meetup information across the organizations here at Progress, and this one looked like some of y’all might like it. Jim Holmes is putting on a webinar on February 17th. The main theme of the webinar will be around the value of the tester within software delivery teams and why testing is so vital for the quality of software products.Here is the landing page, where you will also find a detailed abstract._  
[_https://www.telerik.com/campaigns/teststudio/wb-is-quality-the-bottleneck-webinar_](https://www.telerik.com/campaigns/teststudio/wb-is-quality-the-bottleneck-webinar)

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

benny Vasquez shared

_and Chef Automate got some care in the form of resolving some technical debt, but it also includes updates for Habitat, Habitat Builder, Infra Server, and Inspec._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20210129162733-released/19536_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20210129162733-released/19536)

**Chef Infra Client**

benny Vasquez shared

_We had a Chef Infra Client 16 release with some AWS metadata improvements will be interesting to some folks, along with some other nice improvements:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-10-8-released/19512_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-10-8-released/19512) _(Thanks to_ [_@kuba-moo_](https://github.com/kuba-moo) _,_ [_@Babar 1_](https://github.com/Babar) _,_ [_@wilkosz_](https://github.com/wilkosz) _and_ [_@sawanoboly_](https://github.com/sawanoboly) _!)_

**Chef Workstation**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Workstation had a release that included updates for_ [_Infra Client_](https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_client/#whats-new-in-1610) _, AlmaLinux support, an update to curl that included some CVE resolution, and much more. Full release notes:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-2-259-released/19526_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-2-259-released/19526) _(Thanks to_ [_@coderanger_](https://github.com/coderanger) _, and_ [_@ElfoLiNk_](https://github.com/ElfoLiNk) _!)_

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

_A bento box has been released for Debian 10.8_ [_https://app.vagrantup.com/bento/boxes/debian-10.8_](https://app.vagrantup.com/bento/boxes/debian-10.8)

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Alex Pop shared

_Hello everyone and he's a summary of what we worked over the past week:_

- _We merged a change to allow the Automate nginx to start even if external automate upstream fails to resolve_
- _Added integration testing for infra-proxy-service_
- _Added integration testing for the notification service_
- _We added search API endpoint to list clients_
- _We are refreshing of the compliance profiles with fixes and update to the content_
- _We are rewriting the notifications service in go to align better with our engineering capabilities_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

- _Continuing to work on native Apple M1 builds. We have successfully built the basic package by updating just macOS to openSSL 1.1.1 (which is also a very good thing)_
- _Working on upgrading Infra Client to Ruby 3, which exposed bugs in ffi-libarchive/mixlib-archive that were breaking berkshelf under Ruby 3. New versions of those gems are out now_
- _Merged support for the Alibaba Cloud Linux and polling metadata information from Alibaba's metadata endpoint. That includes a new `alibaba?` helper for recipes_
- _The reboot\_pending? helper has been updated to support all Debian platform family distros_
- _Yum/DNF package helper scripts have been updated to cleanly exit so you don't get errors in some system logs_
- _Apt package support has been updated to support version downgrades by properly comparing versions_

_Also other than minor bugfixes 16.10 is probably the last Infra Client release until get 17.0 out the door_

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello! This week for the Chef Infra Server team:_

_ **Done:** _

- _We closed #1471: "keys" delete method not allowed. Keys can be deleted with `knife user key delete username key name(other than default)`_
- _Seeing the version of the installed Chef Infra Server is now configurable with `include_version_in_status`_
- _Updated chef 12.12.22 -\> 15.15.1 for all the Ruby components._
- [_https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2181_](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2181) _is now merged. Enabling data-collector in Automate should work even if automate is not running._

_ **In flight:** _

- _We have moved past the blocker for with the pipeline for the Rails update, currently working on understanding the test failures._
- _Work is in progress to support new installs of Elasticsearch 7. We are currently testing the changes with standalone, tiered and external Elasticsearch 7 installs._
- _Currently working on adding support Postgres 12.5 for newer versions of Chef Infra Server installs._
- _We worked on_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/1862_](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/1862) _- passing the correct header via Nginx for external automate._
- _Currently testing changes for_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2242_](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2242) _: data-collector and compliance if configured should forward to the automate instance instead of localhost_

_That is the Infra Server team this week! See you all next Thursday!_

**Chef Workstation**

mparadise shared

_Howdy folks! In Workstation this week..._

_... We merged a fix to chef-cli that allows for generated generator cookbooks to be renamed without breaking, which seems like a good thing. kitchen-azurerm is going to seen see an update soon, giving more IP options (thanks gh/simonjefford!). This and more should be in 'stable' next week._

_...Work has continued as well on implementing a new internal structure for chef/chef-cli command handling which will result in faster load times and a more consistent experience across `chef` commands._

_...Finally, we are starting to undertake triage of the long list of issues out of the test-kitchen repositories. This will take some time, but we hope to restore some sanity there over the coming weeks_

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

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

- _consul - 4.3.2: Proper error messages when installing diplomat_
- _jenkins - 8.2.0: Sous Chefs Adoption / other misc fixes_
- _jenkins - 8.2.1: Fix idempotency issue with_ jenkins\_user _when users have more than one public key_
- _logrotate - 2.3.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _nagios 10.0.0: Sous Chefs Adoption / Convert definitions to custom resources / lots of other misc fixes and improvements_
- _postgresql - 8.2.1: Fix changelog formatting_
- _powershell - 6.2.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _resolver - 2.2.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _vault - 5.1.0: Added ark installation method support for Amazon Linux_
- _vault - 5.2.0: Support ark installation for aarch64/i386/x86\_64 architectures_
- _yum-erlang\_solutions - 2.1.0: Sous Chefs Adoption / Switch to using https endpoints and gpgcheck enabled_

_We're also still working through the long list of imported cookbooks and getting them cleaned up and properly cleaned up. We're working on them in order of popularity based on the Supermarket API._

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Client_

- _Released 16.10.8_

_Cinc Workstation_

- _Released 21.2.259 via unstable channel_
- _Continuing work on a Windows build_
- _Also going to be diving into finishing up the wordmark issues so we can have a "stable" release_

_Cinc Server_

- _Resolved build failure from a few weeks ago_

_Other updates:_

_We ended up needing to rebuild a new Windows builder last week due to some issues. This brought up the need to focus on automating/documenting how we create these builders._

_I started working on a fork of the omnibus cookbook as cinc-omnibus to manage setting up our omnibus builders. Once the cinc-omnibus cookbook is finished, we're looking at creating builders for each Windows platform._

_I also mentioned yesterday, it might be a good idea if we start having a bi-weekly public Cinc triage meeting. If you're interested, stay tuned in_ [_#community-distros_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CHLTJ6XP0) _for finding a time and a medium that works best for folks._

## **See you next week!**

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