# Meeting notes for July 29, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-july-29-2021/20141>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [July 29, 2021, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-july-29-2021/20141 "2021-07-29T21:09:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-july-29-2021/20141/1 "2021-07-29T21:09:44Z")

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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

_As_ [_@damacus_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1QLQQV5X) _said, we’re doing a bunch of streaming, so go subscribe on twitch to get notifications for when we do streams!_ [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/chefsoftware)

_I mentioned last week, but just in case you missed it: Dan also wrote a blog post about the Awesome Chef awards. There’s only **ONE MORE WEEK** to submit your favorite chef community members, so don’t procrastinate any longer:_ [Nominate an Awesome Chef! - Chef Blog | Chef](https://blog.chef.io/nominate-an-awesome-chef)

# This week’s releases

**Chef Infra Server**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Infra Server_ [_14.7.13_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-server-14-7-13-released/20138) _was released with some improvments around chef-server-ctl gather-logs and an upgrade to Rails._

**Chef Infra Client**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Infra Client_ [_16.14_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-14-released/20136) _dropped with a TON of improvements and bug fixes that I’m sure_ [_@tas50_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1CDF6JE6) _will talk more about later._

**Chef Workstation**

benny Vasquez shared

_Workstation had one earlier this week with a bunch of important updates and bug fixes:_ [Chef Workstation 21.7.545 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-7-545-released/20134)

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Ankur Mundhra shared

_Chefs in Automate team prepared the following things for you:_

- _Re-certified Incident creation app for Quebec version on ServiceNow Store_
- _Detailed view of policy files including included\_policy, run list and attribute details with visibility of revision ids of each policy file_
- _Paginated view of compliance scan reports_
- _APIs to get policy group information, list of policy files and more_
- _Mandatory landing page for all types of users - local Automate, SAML, Ldap_
- _Documentation of ServiceNow CMDB integration app (2.0.0 app release in review stage at ServiceNow Store)_
- _Compliance profiles: STIG Windows 10 v2.1.0,_
- _CVE fix:_ [_CVE-2021-23358_](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cf4h-3jhx-xvhq)

_More updates coming soon_

**Chef Habitat**

mwrockx shared

_This week we have been working on:_

- _Core-plans team onboarding_
- _Continued work on August core-plans refresh_
- _Investigating options around core-plans version bump automation_
- _Working on bumping builder and habitat cargo deps and eliminating any CVE exposure_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_Let's start off with Secrets Manager integrations_

_We're continuing to work on our new beta of secrets manager integrations. We've made it easier to specify the vault when using Azure Key Vault and we now default to the AWS region of the instance when fetching from AWS Secrets Manager. Next up is work to support HashiCorp Vault as well as Akeyless Vault. We're hoping for 17.4 for those._

_Next up is Compliance Phase_  
_The next iteration of our compliance integration in Chef Infra Client is coming along nicely. We're on track to merge support for shipping InSpec profiles and waivers in cookbooks at_ /compliance/profiles _and_ /compliance/waivers _. You'll be able to include these in your run just like your use_ include\_recipe _today. Keep an eye out for this in Infra Client 17.4. We also just merged turning on_ chef\_node\_attribute\_enabled _by default so InSpec profiles will always have access to Infra node attributes including all the Ohai data._

_How about some Docker after that_

_Our Releng team just did some pipeline magic and we'll now be producing Arm Infra Client Docker containers alongside the existing x86 containers._

_and we have a few other things worth noting that merged_

- _systemd\_unit now generates valid unit files when passing a hash_
- _knife bootstrapping now respects ssh config files_
- _yum\_repository has been refactored to improve logging and reliability on RHEL derivatives_
- _homebrew\_cask now supports casks with '-' or '@' in the name._

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello Chefs!_  
_This week we released chef Infra Server 14.7 (_ [Chef Infra Server Release Notes](https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_server/?v=14.7.13) _) This release has some enhancements and fixes a regression caused by the previous release (14.6.32) in upgrading when Supermarket is installed._  
_In addition to keeping various dependencies updated and code cleanup, this week we updated pg\_gem from 0.17 -\> 1.2.3._  
_We are working on the preparation of the release that supports Postgresql 13.3.Thank you folks! See you next week!_

**Chef Inspec**

cwolfe shared

_The Chef InSpec team is working on:_

- _Investigating an issue with SSH connections when_ PrintLastLog _is enabled_
- _Adding support for the IBM DB2 database_
- _Fixing the unit tests for Ruby 2.5 (probably for the last time)_
- _Working on a new release_

**Chef Workstation**

Vikram Karve shared

_Hi All! Here are the updates from Workstation team-The latest workstation release 21.7.545 on 27th Jul includes the below changes_

- _Update ruby version to 3.0.2_
- _Update deprecated schema in the chocolatey package_
- _Updated chef-cli to 5.3.1_
- _Update docker-api_
- _Updated curl to resolve CVEs_
- _Updated error message related to_ knife cookbook unshare _command_

_Work-in-progress_

- _Adding further unit test cases in the Go Cobra library implementation in Workstation_
- _Dev changes to optimise_ chef -v _are nearly complete, continue to address issue found here in Windows_
- _Addressing an_ [_issue_](https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-vagrant/issues/387) _in kitchen-vagrant_

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Hello from Sous Chefs!_

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

- _grafana - 9.7.0:_
  - _Enable_ unified\_mode _for all resources_
  - _ **Deprecations:** _
    - _All Grafana API resources will be removed in a future version of this cookbook. Other tools e.g. Terraform are better suited for interacting with the API._
      - grafana\_dashboard _,_ grafana\_dashboard\_template _,_ grafana\_dashboard\_backup

    - _These use the old dashboard name API which was removed in the latest 8.0 release of Grafana_
      - grafana\_datasource _,_ grafana\_datasource\_backup _,_ grafana\_organization _,_ grafana\_user

- _users - 7.1.0:_
  - _Give group ownership of each users_ .ssh/\* _files to that users primary group_
  - _Allow user to set file permissions for their home directory_
  - _Add a_ primary\_group _and_ homedir\_mode _key to the user hash options_

- _We're doing some refactoring work on the selinux cookbook as well thanks to_ [_@bmhughes_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/USRKJ9BFH) _. Once that's completed,_ [_@Robert Detjens_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UUTQ3RB52) _will work on pulling in the resources from the selinux\_policy cookbook into the selinux cookbook. The end goal is to get that cookbook in a stable state and eventually get the resources into client natively_

_I think there are a few other PRs in progress but that's the notable stuff._

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Server_

- _Working on resolving run-time issues with 14.6.32 related to chef-utils gem_
- _Will work on building 14.7.13 once the 14.6 run-time issues are resolved_

_Cinc Client_

- _Working on resolving build issues with 17.3.48 on Windows related to the ruby-shadow gem_
- _Will work on building 16.14 once the 17.3 build issues are resolved_

_Cinc Workstation_

- _Will work on building 21.7.545 once the Cinc Client 17.3 build issues are resolved_

_Much of the delay in the past week is my time being consumed with rebooting machines related to the Sequoia vulnerability. I hope to make more progress in the next week!_

**Other updates**

tas50 shared

_unrelated to Infra Client, but in my wheel house we're hoping for a Chef Manage release soon that will include some branding updates in the UI, a bunch of CVE fixes, support for running when Chef Infra Server has MTLS enabled, and validation of user e-mails when they change their e-mail_

_We're also hoping for a Supermarket release and that includes a massive list of dep updates along with improvements to search_

## **See you next week!**

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