Meeting notes for May 27th, 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/

DevRel/Community

benny Vasquez shared

I’ll kick it off with some DevRel updates, ICYMT.

This week’s releases

Chef Automate

benny Vasquez shared

Chef Automate got a huge update this week, with more UI additions as we aim for functional parity between manage and Automate: https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20210518074441-released/19915

(reminder: Manage is EOL as of 12/2022, so get start your planning now)

Chef Inspec

benny Vasquez shared

Chef InSpec got a release last week with a ton of improvements https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-37-17-released/19910 along with another quick update with some bug fixes this week: https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-37-20-released/19916/1

Other releases

benny Vasquez shared

tas50 shared a bunch of Virtualbox updates this week:

  • Debian 10.9 Bento boxes for Virtualbox are now up
  • Updated FreeBSD 11, 12, 13 slugs as well as 11.4, 12.2 and 13.0 boxes for virtualbox are also update. These include the new virtualbox guest extensions
  • Updated fedora-latest, fedora-32 and fedora-33 virtualbox bento boxes are also now uploaded
  • Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 20.10, and 21.04 Bento boxes for virtualbox have been updated
  • almalinux 8.3/8, springdalelinux 7.9/7, oracle 6.10/6, oracle 7.9/7, and oracle 8.3/8 bento boxes have been updated
  • debian 9.13/9, debian 10.9/10 have also been updated for virtualbox
  • centos 7.9/7 and centos 8.3/8 for virtualbox have been updated

Updates

Chef Infra Client

tas50 shared

Hey folks. We had a bit of a quiet period with @mparadise and @lamont both out on vacation, but everyone is back so we're jumping right back into updates.

  • Shipped a few minor updates to knife which have been pushed up to Rubygems. knife not in chef makes it possible
  • Helping out to get Workstation on Ruby 3
  • Re-Enabled kernel2 habitat package creation for Chef Infra Client 17
  • Working on several PRs for knife
  • Working on several PRs for the mount resource
  • Working on a PR to allow using both .yml and .yaml recipes
  • Investigating the future of secrets management in Infra
  • Investigating our next steps for Target Mode

:fingerscrossed: for Ruby 3 Workstation PRs

Chef Infra Server

benny shared prajakta’s update:

Hello Chefs!

We have been continuing with internal doc cleanups and updates and keeping dependencies up-to-date as the team is getting ramped up.

  • We fixed an issue that broke chef-server-ctl restore in 14.0. The fix will be available in 14.5
  • The testing for Postgresql 9.6 upgrade to 12.5 is currently underway.
  • Work is in progress to look into a reindex related failure with a customer.
    See y'all next week!

Chef Inspec

cwolfe shared

The Chef InSpec team is working on:

  • Refactored the inspec automate command to remove unused code
  • Investigated issues with login using SSH keys stored in an agent
  • Updating the inspec init plugin code generator
  • Began looking into creating resources for Sybase database

Sous Chefs

ramereth shared

Hello from Sous Chefs!

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

  • ark - 6.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
    • Migrate to using seven_zip_tool resource directly and require seven_zip >= 3.1
  • atom - 1.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
  • autofs - 3.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
    • Unpin the line cookbook so we use the latest version
  • chef_ca - 1.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
  • dnsmasq - 1.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
  • fileutils - 2.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
    • Various cookstyle fixes
  • golang - 5.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
  • nscd - 6.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
  • ntp - 3.10.0:
    • Fix Fedora tests by omitting the latest distro version
  • resolver - 4.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
  • ruby_rbenv - 4.0.0:
    • Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
    • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
    • Various platform updates
  • seven_zip - 4.1.0:
    • Reduce Chef requirement to >= 15.3
  • vault - 6.0.0:
    • Chef 16 is now required (use of resource partials)
    • Refactor all HCL and json resources to use load_current_value and converge_if_changed
    • See ChangeLog for additional changes
  • vcruntime - 2.2.3:
    • Update vc14 checksum for 14.29.30037.0

Cinc Updates

ramereth shared

Hello from the Cinc Project!

Cinc Auditor:

  • Released 4.37.17, 4.37.20

Cinc Server:

  • Still working on testing failures with 14.4.4 build on RHEL before releasing

Our next public triage meeting is next Wednesday at 9AM PDT.

Other updates

This is the only other thing on my list to share! It’s a super powerful extension, if you aren’t familiar.

See you next week!

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