# Meeting notes for July 23, 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-july-23-2020/17444>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-july-23-2020/17444 "2020-07-23T16:39:58Z")\
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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:** [July 23, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-july-23-2020/17444/1 "2020-07-23T16:39:58Z")

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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**

bennyVasquez shared

_This week we added more pages to the Chef Community site (_ [_community.chef.io_](http://community.chef.io/) _) and are now redirecting the Habitat (_ [_habitat.sh_](http://habitat.sh) _) and InSpec (_ [_Inspec.io_](http://inspec.io/) _) micro-sites to the new pages. You can view the new pages here:_

- [_https://community.chef.io/products/chef-inspec/_](https://community.chef.io/products/chef-inspec/)
- [_https://community.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/_](https://community.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/)

_I also want to mention: make sure you’re keeping an eye on the_ [_https://events.chef.io/_](https://events.chef.io/) _page. We’ve been adding a bunch of virtual events, and would love to see your faaaaaaaaaaces._

# This week’s releases

**Chef Inspec**

tas50 shared

_The InSpec folks released 4.22.0 and 4.22.1 with improved support for macOS Big Sur, fixes to ignore cdrom sources in the apt resources, and some fixes for CLI inputs_

- [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-22-0-released/17422_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-22-0-released/17422)
- [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-22-1-released/17439_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-22-1-released/17439)

**Chef Workstation**

tas50 shared

_Workstation 20.7.96 shipped. This release now includes the Habitat CLI so Workstation is your single tool for all Chef products. We also upgraded many knife/kitchen plugins and updated cookstyle:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-7-96-released/17435_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-7-96-released/17435)

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Cookbook Releases:_

- _pyenv 3.3.1 was released with fixes for some namespace attributes (thanks_ [_@petracvv_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U4ZGSEM5L) _)_

- _vagrant 2.0.3 was released which includes a variety of fixes in the tests (thanks_ [_@markgibbons_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U5GKE3PMK) _)_

- _consul 4.0.3 was released with a variety of cookstyle fixes_

- _openvpn 5.1.0 was released adding CentOS 8 support (thanks to my OSL student Ryan Z for doing that and also a new contributor!)_

- _mysql 8.7.3 was released with a bunch of cookstyle fixes and also restores support for Chef Infra Client \< 16_

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

_Cookstyle 6.13 shipped with 5 new cops bringing the total to 208. These focus on cleaning up redundant code and simplifying things by using newer patterns:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-6-13-released-with-5-new-chef-cops/17424_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-6-13-released-with-5-new-chef-cops/17424)

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Alex Pop shared

_Greetings from the Automate team!_

- _We added project update support to the Chef Server event-feed actions._
- _Added the ability to select the columns to be displayed on the Desktop page._
- _Merged an `actions` change to propagate the Chef Server FQDN as the `service_hostname`. This was ‘localhost’ before._
- _Working to improve Compliance control title and tag suggestions._
- _Continuing the work to capture and report all possible InSpec runtime errors._
- _Added Chef Server and Chef Server Organization fields to the event-feed-service._
- _Merged documentation updates._
- _Improved deployment and operation of the Automate services._

**Chef Habitat**

sdmacfarlane shared

_Greetings from the Habitat team! This last week we've been working on:_

- _A number of cli ux improvements_
- _Bug fixes to svc load argument parsing_
- _Fixes to Windows build script to properly load build dependency runtime environments_
- _Continuing work to add coverage to our datastore code so we can safely swap the postgres crate out for the Diesel ORM in jobsrv_
- _Extend data returned by_ hab pkg info _, and added json output_

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello Chefs!_

- _This week we have been looking into the failures with aws sig\_v4 and FIPS._
- _Work is underway on removing opscode-expander along with Solr and Rabbitmq as a part to the Chef Infra Server 14 release. Also fixing the issues we see with chef-backend and external elasticsearch topology in doing so._

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

- _Rewrote the macos\_userdefaults resource to resolve a large number of fundamental failures in the previous design_
- _A large chunk of test cleanup work mostly focusing around cleanly running our Windows unit / functional tests_
- _Initial work starting on integration testing for bootstrapping_
- _shell\_out and which helpers have been moved out of the chef codebase itself so we can use these in other projects like ohai. This is going to enable some upcoming Target Mode work_
- _Work to cleanup some insensitive terms in client configs. ~~path\_sanity, attribute\_whitelist, attribute\_blacklist~~ _

_Hopefully we have a 16.3 release out today, but it may be tomorrow. Initial release notes here:_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10192_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10192)

**Chef Inspec**

Stocksy shared

_Hello from the InSpec team!_

_Oh yes, we have **two** releases for you! Not only are we up to_ 4.22 _but we’ve added additional features for a_ 4.22.1 _release!_

_Here’s what’s brand spanking new in_ 4.22.1 _:_

- _A bugfix where Chef InSpec’s Chef Habitat builds for Linux no longer execute with a PATH that includes build dependency directories._

_Here’s what you were previewed last week about_ 4.22 _and is now live:_

- _When a runtime error occurs while loading a profile, instead of immediately terminating, InSpec now reports the profile as “failed”._
- _Updated the service resource in preparation of the coming macOS 11 Big Sur release._
- _Fixed a bug where having a = character in a CLI input would truncate the value passed to InSpec._
- _Fixed a bug where the apt resource did not handle the presence of apt-cdrom type repos._

_Thanks everyone and have a great week!_

**Chef Workstation**

tball shared

_Howdy! Most of our relevant work in the last week went into the Chef Workstation release. It now includes the `hab` binary. We found that we need to update `chef -v` to include the `hab` version so we're working on that now. The rest of our time has been spent refactoring code, writing documentation, and planning our next feature._

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Work in progress:_

- [_@ramereth_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U2UHD7RQF) _is working on refactoring the nagios cookbook to be resource driven_
- _The chef\_ca cookbook was transferred to Sous Chefs. This cookbook will add a supplied bundle to the chef cacert.pem file (thanks_ [_@markgibbons_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U5GKE3PMK) _)_
- [_@markgibbons_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U5GKE3PMK) _has an one PR in the filesystem cookbook which adds NFS mount support and also rewrites the resources as custom resources (_ [_https://github.com/sous-chefs/filesystem/pull/90_](https://github.com/sous-chefs/filesystem/pull/90) _)_

_There are other various PRs that need review_

[_@markgibbons_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U5GKE3PMK) _has been a busy person with Sous Chefs this week!_

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Cinc Client:_

- _Rebased_ [_@Tensibai_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1TS1SGMQ) _'s MRs to add Biome packages. Very close to merging! (_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/client/-/merge\_requests/42_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/client/-/merge_requests/42) _) (_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/upstream/chef/-/merge\_requests/7_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/upstream/chef/-/merge_requests/7) _)_

_Cinc Workstation:_

- _Released 20.7.96 & 20.7.81 via our unstable channel_
- _Plan on continuing work on resolving outstanding issues to get the build properly trademark complaint_
- _Will intend on building upstream stable versions when they are released and release them on the unstable channel_

_Cinc Auditor:_

- _Released 4.22.0_
- _Rebased_ [_@Tensibai_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1TS1SGMQ) _'s MRs to add Biome packages. Very close to merging! (_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/upstream/inspec/-/merge\_requests/5_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/upstream/inspec/-/merge_requests/5) _) (_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/upstream/inspec/-/merge\_requests/5_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/upstream/inspec/-/merge_requests/5) _)_
- _Waiting to build 4.22.1 until_ [_@Tensibai_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1TS1SGMQ) _'s MR is merged so we can deploy using it_

_Cinc Server:_

- _Had a zoom call yesterday with_ [_@jgitlin_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UVANM7LTX) [_@Ehlers_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UAVK42CJG) _discussing next steps to get this build moving along._
- _Decided on splitting up various tasks to individuals to help speed up development_
- [_@jgitlin_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UVANM7LTX) _will work on an update PR to create globally word mark attributes to make the cookbooks which deploy server work for Cinc_
- [_@Ehlers_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UAVK42CJG) _will work on various server gems and incorporating dist support as needed_
- _Created a meta issue (_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/server/-/issues/9_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/server/-/issues/9) _) to track progress_
- _Plan on doing a weekly zoom call on Wednesdays at 11AM PDT for the foreseeable future. DM_ [_@ramereth_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U2UHD7RQF) _for details for that call if you want to join and help!_

_Misc:_

- _Restarting work on getting ppc64le builds going for Cinc Client (it's currently a blocker at $work for me!)_

**Other updates**

ramereth shared

_yum-centos 4.0.2 was released which includes a slight refactor and additional features for users of CentOS_

- _All SIG repositories can now be managed with this cookbook_
- _Added and improved unit and integration testing_
- _Fixed and added support for using multiple vault repos_
- _Added debuginfo and cr repos for CentOS 8 now that they are available upstream_
- _Removed XenServer support which frees up some untested code_
- _Remove_ node['yum-centos']['keep\_scl\_repositories'] _attribute since we manage SCL repos directly now_

## **See you next week!**

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