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
Hello Folks! Thanks for joining me for another community meeting
As usual, let’s kick things off with some updates for your educational viewing and reading pleasure:
Blog Posts to Check Out:
Secure your Cloud Native Environments Holistically
How to Work with Chef Data Bags
Chef InSpec with Docker
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This week’s releases
Chef Automate
Kiah shared
Automate version 4.2.22 Released! This release includes support for OpenSearch connectivity over HTTP
Chef InSpec
Kiah shared
Chef Workstation 22.7.1006 Released! test-kitchen has been updated to mask the sensitive data in debug logs with this release.
Updates
Chef Automate
Ankur Mundhra shared
Hello community
Highlights of this week include:
- Chef Automate can now check proxy environment when we download the latest manifest
- OpenSearch can now connect using HTTP protocol
- Fixed bug to handle IAM capability with large compliance
- Fixed bug to handle zero failed, passed and waived profiles in compliance report
- Security improvement on usage of id_tokens by adding HTTP-only header
- Improved Automate HA backup and restore documentation
Team Automate
Chef Habitat
mwrockx shared
Hello from Habitat!
This week's updates:
- Working on "native packages" CI and ARM builds
- Working on improving build order for package builds
- Fixing bug where supervisor toml file cannot include hostnames for binds
- Refreshing sqllite core package and its rdeps
- looking at some bugs with rolling updates
Chef Infra Client
John McCrae shared
Greetings from the Chef Infra team! Woot!
We are heads down working on refining the Chef-18 release and getting Ruby 3.1 support!
Have a great week everyone
Chef Infra Server
Lincoln Baker shared
Hello from Infra Server!
- Upgrading Erlang to 24+
- Adding documentation for Opensearch tiered setup
- Investigation of possible issues with knife ec backup
- Adding additional logging (authz_time, authz_count, URL) to knife ec backup
- Updating knife ec backup to output more meaningful success/failure results
- API design for server-side secrets
Chef Inspec
cwolfe shared
Chef InSpec Team:
- Finished main effort on Podman support on images and containers
- Design document on Attestations
- Initial work on Kubernetes configmap support
- Finished work on InSpec Suggest support tool fetch, check, and package subcommands
- Finishing up work on enhanced outcomes
Chef Workstation
Vikram Karve shared
Hi All! Here is what Workstation, Community Tools & Omnibus folks are working on
- Released Chef Workstation 22.7.1006
- Continue to develop Workstation GUI to manage repositories & cookbooks.
- Refactoring
chef-clicode to allow API compatible method call, apart from CLI. - Assisting Chef Infra Client to resolve release / verify pipeline issues toward v18 release.
- Planning phase- introducing support for building universal macos binaries in omnibus.
- Prep work to enable build support on OSes such as FreeBSD 13 & AIX 7.3
Cinc Updates
ramereth shared
Unfortunately I've been heads in deep with $work stuff for the past week and a half and haven't had a chance to work on the Cinc Server and now Cinc Workstation builds. I hope to get to those later this week but it might not be until next week. Apologies for the delay!