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
Let’s kick things off with some updates from DevRel and updates for your educational viewing and reading pleasure:
ICYMI I had an awesome time chatting with the Habitat team yesterday on the latest Habitat Office Hours session. Check it out here
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Updates
Chef Automate
Ankur Mundhra shared
Hello community
Highlights of this week include:
- Documentation improvements of Automate HA – backup & restore, EFS configuration, bootstrapping, Automate to Automate migration and more
- Working to improve control list API to have node status
- Working to improve pipeline to deliver better quality software
- Added integration test suite to compliance reporting APIs
- Testing the customisable SSH port connectivity capability in Automate HA
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
- Wrapping up rolling update bug fixes
- Working on updating several habitat depenency libraries
Chef Infra Client
John McCrae shared
Today reporting that we are -><- that close to an exciting release of Chef-18. Stay Tuned
Chef Infra Server
Jan shahid shaik shared
Updates from chef infra server team
- Upgrade to Erlang 24+
- Adhoc jobs design/implementation
- Adding verify pipelines to adhoc jobs
- Knife ec backup enhancements
- Add authz_time, authz_count, url to logs
- Working on hosted chef issues.
- Update gather-logs to include additional information.
Chef Inspec
cwolfe shared
Chef InSpec Team:
- Functionally complete work on attestation support, including support for XLS and JSON files. Started on documentation
- Finished work on the suggtool support tool for the inspec suggest recommender system
- Completed work on 3 new kubernetes resources
- Draft of a feasibility study for running docker scans on non-local hosts
Cinc Updates
ramereth shared
Hello from the Cinc Project!
- Cinc Server 15.0.9 has been finally released
- Still need to make an upstream PR to deal with word mark issues
- Cinc Auditor 5.18.14 has been released