Meeting notes for March 10th, 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

Let’s kick things off with some updates from DevRel:

In case you missed it, Dan and I talked with Kimball Johnson from Appsembler about virtual labs earlier today on the live stream! Check out the replay on YouTube

The Hallway Track: Let's talk Appsember

Upcoming Webinars:
Mar 16th - InSpec Best Practices, Container Security
March 30th - Desktop Codify Your Fleet Instead!

Tune in on YT or Twitch

Chef Software

ChefSoftware - Twitch

Next week’s live streams:

Mar 15th: InSpec Best Practices

If you’ve been following our livestreams on Tuesdays & Thursdays for awhile, here’s your heads up! We’re going to retire that schedule and cut back quite a bit on them to help give us time to build super quality content for 1-2 livestreams a month. If you have anything to offer, let us know! Else, keep your eye on the #devrel channel for more info.

This week’s releases

Other releases

Kiah shared

Chef Supermarket 5.0.41 Released! This release contains the much awaited PG upgrade along with migrating to Cookstyle for quality metrics.

Updates

Chef Automate

Kallol Roy shared

This week the team worked on:

  • New opt-in telemetry for the data-bags, environments and nodes tab in infra server
  • Working on Chef User migration from Chef Infra Server to Chef Automate from Automate UI
  • Completed development of backup and restore fix for large data
  • Completed development for PG upgrade from 9.6.11 to 9.6.24
  • Testing is in progress for the milestone release
  • Elastic search 6.8.23 in earlier HA installation is now available for upgradatio

Chef Habitat

mwrockx shared

Hello from Habitat!
This week's updates:

  • Making progress on next core-plans refresh
  • Working on auto bumping core plan versions
  • Investigating build order of core plan refresh
  • Investigating rolling deployment bug when demoting package from a tracking channel while a rolling update is in progress
  • Working to resolve docker studio supervisor on M1 platform
  • Working to add backoff/retry for run and init hooks
  • Documenting how to use Azure postgres for on-prem builder
  • Investigating decoupling of swim protocol/butterfly code in supervisor
  • Working to add better validation of "hab sup run" args whrn not including a package to run

Chef Infra Client

johnmccrae shared

Good Morning from the Chef Client team. Short update this week.In Development

  • Introducing Chef::Config[:migrate_key_to_keystore] to facilitate storing the client.pem in the KeyChain or the Certificate Store

  • Code for Storing and retrieving pem files in/from the Window Certificate Store

  • 17.10.x will ship next week.

  • Will update the release notes to cover the final fixes and updates

Chef Infra Server

prajakta shared

Good Morning from the Chef Client team. Short update this week.In Development

  • Introducing Chef::Config[:migrate_key_to_keystore] to facilitate storing the client.pem in the KeyChain or the Certificate Store

  • Code for Storing and retrieving pem files in/from the Window Certificate Store

  • 17.10.x will ship next week.

  • Will update the release notes to cover the final fixes and updates

Chef Inspec

cwolfe shared

The Chef InSpec Team has been working on:

  • Adding a cron resource as a compatibility alias for crontab Adding a resource generator, inspec init resource
  • Finished adding support for declaring and installing gem dependencies from profile metadata
  • Added support for finding resource ID on a per-resource basis
  • Re-enabled support for generating a target ID

Chef Workstation

Vikram Karve shared

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

much of it continues from last weekReady for release (but there is a release blocker specific to macos arm64 that we are still resolving)

  • Introduced network interface addition support in kitchen-vcenter
  • Address regression in cookbook caching- thanks @karmix!Fixed an issue with cookbook-omnifetch config default - thanks again @karmix!

Work-in-progress

  • Moving knife supermarket to chef supermarket
  • Updating test-kitchen plugins to Ruby 3.1
  • Wrapping up implementation of chef env in Golang.Adding telemetry support in chef CLI execution on WorkstationFix to knife user create issue being reviewed

...new this week

  • begun ground work for automating e2e tests
  • team getting ramped up on bento and fauxha

Sous Chefs

ramereth shared

Hello from the Sous Chefs!

Here's the list of new releases in the past week:

  • unbound - 2.0.3: Cookstyle fixes

It's been a fairly quiet week, but we have a backlog of CI / Cookstyle fixes that need to get merged so expect more releases soon

Cinc Updates

ramereth shared

Hello from the Cinc Project!

Server:

  • Released 14.13.42 via unstable channel

  • Also released 14.13.42 via the current channel containing the word mark fixes from this PR

  • Please test this and let us know if you run into any issues between versions

  • This version does not contain any symlinks to Chef paths and should be using the native paths for everything

  • I expect this might cause issues migrating between the version we currently have in unstable so please provide feedback

Other updates

damacus shared

kitchen-azurerm v1.10.1 has been published

  • Rollback Support vm availability zone whilst the community-tools-team provide a long term fix to support multiple availability zones

See you next week!

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