Meeting Notes for July 21 2022

Community Meetings
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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/

DevRel/Community

Kiah shared

Ohai folks! Thanks for joining me for another community meeting.

Let’s kick things off with some updates from DevRel and updates for your educational viewing and reading pleasure:It's that time of year again! It's time for you to nominate an Awesome Chef!!

Blog Posts to Check Out:
The Ultimate Guide to ChefConf '22: The DevOps Conference of the Year
Encrypt Data using Chef Data bags
Group nodes via “Projects” in Chef Automate

Upcoming Livestreams:
Jul 27th- Habitat Office Hours
Tune in on YT or Twitch

Events to Attend:
Play ball with Chef

  • July 26th Chicago Cubs vs Pittsburgh Pirates @ 1:20 PM - Wrigley Field, Chicago

ChefConf: ChefConf ’22 is in 52 days! Grab your passes today!

Don’t forget, that we’ve prepared a few community gathering events for ChefConf this year. You have to be with us in person to attend them!

We’re hosting a contest!
If you know Chef, you know we love our stickers! We’re inviting you to come up with our official ChefConf ’22 sticker. The theme this year is ‘Simplifying Complexity’. Come up with a concept and a tagline to compete for a chance to win some really cool prizes. Stay tuned for details!

We’re also hosting a blog contest! We want to know how you simplify complexity in your life. It can be at work using dev tools or in life. Minimum 300 words. Stay tuned for more details.

Updates

Chef Automate

Ankur Mundhra shared

Hello community

Highlights of this week include:

  • Fixing pipeline issues related to backup and restore
  • Fixing bugs on Infra Server views UI
  • Expanded Automate HA migration documentation to cover for troubleshooting section
  • Working to make customer SSH port connectivity to Automate HA
  • Started work to plan for next quarter

Team Automate

Chef Habitat

mwrockx shared

Hello from Habitat!
This week's updates:

  • Working on "native packages" UX details
  • Working on improving build order and rdep resolution for package builds
  • Bringing "base-plan" repos back into the core-plans mono repo
  • Fixed several bugs with rolling updates and adding test cases
  • Working on updating several habitat depenency libraries

Chef Infra Client

John McCrae shared

Chef Infra Server

Jan Shahid Shaik shared

Updates from chef infra server team

  • Upgrade to Erlang 24+
  • Adhoc jobs design/implementation
  • Knife ec backup enhancements
  • Add authz_time, authz_count, url to logs
  • Working on hosted chef issues.

Chef Workstation

Vikram Karve shared

Hi All! Here is what Workstation, Community Tools & Omnibus folks are working on

  • Workstation UI- Setting up locally running REST API service to reuse knife and chef-cli capabilities from UI.
  • Refactoring cookbook upload flow in knife to make it usable via API service in addition to CLI
  • Most recent Chef Workstation release 22.7.1006 isn't yet published to Chocolatey. We'll retry after their ongoing maintenance.
  • Assisting Chef Infra Client to resolve release / verify pipeline issues toward v18 release that supports Ruby 3.1

Sous Chefs

ramereth shared

Sous Chefs:pyenv version 4.1.0 has been released:

  • Remove duplicate pyenv init from profile script, fixes "pyenv: cannot rehash: <...>/shims isn't writable" for system install

Also, @Xorima fixed our release system which was unfortunately broken due to an expired cert not getting updated

Cinc Updates

ramereth shared

Cinc Project

  • Met with @seansith on Tuesday and walked him through how I do the rebuild for Cinc Server. It was quite a firehose
  • Still working on fixing the run-time issues with Cinc Server 15.0.9. Getting much closer, just need to find time to find all the fixes

See you next week!

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