Meeting Notes for May 20, 2021

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/

This week’s releases

Chef Infra Server

damacus shared

We only had one major release in the past week, and that was an hour ago! Chef Infra Server . There’s a bunch of CVE fixes in that, so if you can pull that one I’d highly suggest you do

Updates

Chef Automate

Ankur Mundhra shared

Automate updates:

  • Infra Server views have expanded to show list of nodes, details of each node and ability to delete them
  • Ability to search nodes using search bar and pagination to control high volume of nodes
  • Validations and improved instructions while creating role, data bag, environment, client, etc. and using the search bar to find relevant objects
  • Fixed data_collector bug to ensure that data is send to Automate for empty events too.

Chef Infra Client

damacus shared

So next Infra Client (on behalf of @tas50 ):

  • 2/3 of team is out on vacation at the moment so we’re chilling
  • Planning for H2
  • Scoping out work to integrate with security managers
  • Added back kernel2 package for habitat

Chef Infra Server

prajakta shared

Ohai Chefs! We released Chef Infra Server 14.4.4 ( https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-server-14-4-4-released/19894 ).

  • Continuing to make progress on
  • Postgresql upgrade from 6.9 to 12.5
  • Dependency updates to fix CVE's
  • Fixing chef-server-ctl restore

https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2316

  • Looking into a customer issue with respect to a reindexing failure:

https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2389 and adding more information related to why the failures might be occuring: https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2457
That is it for us!

Chef Inspec

cwolfe shared

The Chef InSpec team is working on:

  • Optimized the port resource when using ss command to list open ports
  • Fixed the file resource to be more consistent when using the more_permissive_than matcher when the file does not exist
  • Updating the inspec init plugin code generator
  • Investigating issues with login using SSH keys stored in an agent

Chef Workstation

Nikhil Gupta shared

Hello! Workstation team has worked on

  • Added the test for the curl CLI
  • Building GO knowledge to work on the upcoming GO features and test cases.

Currently working on

  • Simplify and Improve Shell Init
  • Publish macOS builds for the M1 macs

Sous Chefs

ramereth shared

Hello from Sous Chefs!

Here's the list of new releases in the past week:atom - 0.5.0:

  • Add ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04 support

cron - 7.0.1:

  • Make unified_mode calls conditional for Chef < 15.3 compatibility

htpasswd - 2.0.0:

  • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
  • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3

mariadb - 5.0.0:

  • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
  • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3

memcached - 7.0.0:

  • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
  • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3

redisio - 4.3.0:

  • Fix disable recipe service naming for systemd

vcruntime - 2.2.2:

  • Update vc6, vc9, vc10 checksums

yum-mysql-community - 5.0.0:

  • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
  • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3

Cinc Updates

ramereth shared

Hello from the Cinc Project!

Cinc Server

Other Updates:

  • Additional dist constants used in chef-cli and InSpec in chef-utils: chef/chef#11594
  • This is the next step for migrating chef-cli and InSpec to eventually using chef-utils for dist constants
  • Our next bi-weekly public triage meeting will happen on June 2nd at 9AM PDT

See you next week!

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