# Meeting notes for May 7th, 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-may-7th-2020/17054>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-may-7th-2020/17054 "2020-05-07T16:49:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![bennyvasquez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/bennyvasquez/32/2559_2.png) [@bennyvasquez](https://discourse.chef.io/u/bennyvasquez)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-may-7th-2020/17054/1 "2020-05-07T16:49:26Z")

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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**

bennyvasquez shared

- _We’ll be live on Friday on Twitch starting at 11am Pacific with Tim and Lamont, and Chef 16! Join us at_ [_https://twitch.tv/chefsoftware_](https://twitch.tv/chefsoftware)
- _ChefConf Online Live Studio Audience Sessions continue! Don’t miss out on your faves._ [_https://chefconf.io/session-recordings/_](https://chefconf.io/session-recordings/) _for the schedule. Sign up for the main event on June 2 at_ [_https://chefconf.io/_](https://chefconf.io/)
- _The Learn Chef team has been working hard on planning to move content over from our existing platform to the new one, in preparation for launching around ChefConf. It’s gonna be gud, so definitely keep your eyes out._

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

tas50 shared

_Automate 20200429153636 shipped with a pile of new features and improvements_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20200429153636-released/17038_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20200429153636-released/17038)

**Chef Habitat**

tas50 shared

_Oh I should also mention that we did our Core Plans refresh for Habitat last week so all the low level packages are all nice and fancy now_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_Chef Infra Client 16.0.275 shipped with some regression fixes for 16.0_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-0-275-released/17047_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-0-275-released/17047)

**Chef Inspec**

tas50 shared

_InSpec 4.8.111 shipped and you can now use the same name for controls and inputs:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-18-111-released/17050_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-18-111-released/17050)

**Sous Chefs**

Xorima shared

_This week sous-chefs have released a few cookbooks_

_Aptly - 2.1.1_  
_bsdcpio - 1.0.3_  
_confluence - 2.6.0_  
_consul - 4.0.1_  
_dnsmasq - 0.3.3_  
_emacs - 0.11.0_  
_fail2ban - 6.2.1_  
_filesystem - 2.0.0_  
_kafka - 3.1.0_  
_memcached - 6.0.1_  
_mongodb - 4.0.0_  
_mysql - 8.7.0_  
_nagios - 8.2.1_  
_nexus - 4.0.2_  
_nano - 2.0.2_  
_nginx - 10.1.0_  
_nginx\_simplecgi - 0.3.1_  
_npm\_lazy - 2.0.1_  
_ossec - 1.2.1_  
_passenger\_apache2 - 4.0.0_  
_percona - 0.17.0_  
_php - 7.1.0_  
_pyenv - 3.2.0_  
_redisio - 4.1.0_  
_reprepro - 2.0.0_  
_ruby\_rbenv - 2.3.2_  
_rundeck - 5.1.0_  
_sc-chruby - 00.1.0_  
_sc-nxlog 0.10.0_  
_sensors - 1.2.0_  
_smartmontools - 2.0.0_  
_snort - 5.0.0_  
_squid - 4.3.0_  
_syslog\_ng - 0.3.5_  
_tomcat - 3.4.0_  
_unbound - 2.0.0_  
_varnish - 4.1.0_  
_vscode - 1.0.2_  
_zabbix-agent 0.15.1_

**Cinc**

ramereth shared

- _Released Cinc Client 16.0.275 and Cinc Auditor 4.18.111_

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

_We also shipped just about the whole Test Kitchen world yesterday. Test Kitchen itself, kitchen-dokken, kitchen-ec2, kitchen-azurerm, kitchen-hyperv, and kitchen-pester all shipped._

- _Test Kitchen now supports /ohai directory plugins and resolves failures using the PowerShell provisioner_
- _Kitchen AzureRM got a few more fixes related to auth_
- _Kitchen Hyper-V will now correctly return the default VM Switch if it has a space in the name_
- _Kitchen EC2 will now attempt to balance the systems across AZs by picking the subnet with the most available IPs._
- _Kitchen-Dokken has a new option_ clean\_dokken\_sandbox` _that can be set to false to skip the cleanup of the Kitchen files between converges_

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Alex Pop shared

- _We fixed the `/status` API endpoint that shows the health of the Automate services_
- _A team effort across InSpec, Audit cookbook, effortless content and Automate to reduce the size of the compliance reports and avoid large ones that can’t be ingested._
- _We improved error messages when adding credentials (e.g. SSH key)_
- _The config management nodes are getting more first class attributes (e.g. ipaddress, timezone, macaddress, etc)_
- _Fixed a bug where waived control counts for a report were incorrect._
- _Added a parameter to specify the buffer for the compliance ingestion pipeline. Once the buffer is full, reports will be rejected._
- _Switched to newer versions of InSpec, ElasticSearch and Postgres._
- _Made improvements to documentation and release notes._
- _Improved the automated testing to reduce flaky tests and improve coverage._
- _Continued with IAM v2 bugs and cleanup_

**Chef Habitat**

sdmacfarlane shared

_Greetings from the Habitat team!_

- _Refactoring the docker exporter, it will be named the container exporter going forward_
- _Config file support for the supervisor was merged_
- _Research into improving service updates_
- _Adding additional deployment patterns for on-prem-builder_
- _Starting research for notifications from builder_
- _Validating build order produced by graph work, documenting edge cases._

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_This week we have been continuing forward progress on enabling bookshelf to accept signature v4 and adding some metrics for request counts and request latency for external accesses from Chef Infra Server._

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

- _Working to release another Hotfix for 16.x with another Windows package fix and a launchd fix_
- _More docs automation. The resource docs at_ [_docs.chef.io_](http://docs.chef.io/) _have gotten a lot better in the last week_
- _Working on dnf/yum 'version' property so we can support version splats like_ 1.2.\*
- _Backporting the knife config improvements from Chef Infra Client 16 to the upcoming 15.11 release. This will start throwing a large number of deprecations depending on how you were using the configs from the CLI and the config.rb/knife.rb_
- _Improving our Test Kitchen tests to cover more resources and run faster_

**Chef Inspec**

Stocksy shared

_This week we had the release of 4.18.111 with a couple of bug fixes for working with inputs:_

- _Fixed not being able to have an input and a control with the same name._
- _Fixed confusing warnings appearing when an input has no default value but does have a user supplied_

_We had some nice merges this week:_

- _A couple of fixes to documentation_
- _A new_ --reporter\_message\_truncation _option to truncate the message field for test failures in reports_
- _A new_ --reporter\_backtrace\_inclusion _option to choose whether to include Ruby backtraces for test errors in reports._

_There's other interesting changes in currently open PRs, including a new "reporter plugins" feature to allow you to create plugins to output InSpec results in any format._

**Chef Workstation**

tas50 shared

- _Did a bunch of work on Ruby 2.7 in Workstation with the PR merged_

- _Continued work on the chef-analyze command_

- _Prep for a 0.18 release before shipping a Chef Infra Client 16 / Ruby 2.7 Workstation 20.5 (data based so may 2020)_

**Sous Chefs**

tas50 shared

_Folks might notice that Tomcat is now on that Sous Chefs list. We transferred that over earlier this week. That continues our goal of moving OS level functionality into Chef Infra Client itself and moving apps to the community where they can be maintained by subject matter experts_

xorima shared

_It’s that time of year again - to start thinking about the Sous Chef board for next year. I will post this several more times as we get closer to Chef Conf (as we’re planning around that time for the actual voting). If you would like to be considered for the Sous Chef board for the 2020-2021 season, please fill out the form!_ [_https://forms.gle/CPAznFLbEzQysMddA_](https://forms.gle/CPAznFLbEzQysMddA) _If there is someone you think should be on the board, please suggest they add themselves (don’t want anyone nominated without their knowledge - should be volunteer basis )_

_Our community meeting is straight after this so maybe we will see you there in_ [_#sous-chefs_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/C2V7B88SF)

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

- _Enabled FIPS on openssl for Cinc Client on Linux & Windows builds which matches upstream builds (16.0.275 includes this fix)_
- _Completed Docker build automation and prepped it for multi-arch support_

_In-progress and/or future work:_

- [_@ramereth_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U2UHD7RQF) _started looking into the Cinc Server MR_
- _Cinc Workstation: No updates on trademark removal, been rebasing against upstream/master weekly to ensure we're ready for the next upstream release_
- _Adding ppc64le/aarch64 builds for Cinc Client_
- _Getting Cinc Infrastructure managed via Cinc Client_

BobChaos shared

_The second implementation of dist.rb is almost complete. All the constants have been moved into chef-utils and they have been reorganized like so:_ ChefUtils::Dist::Infra::PRODUCT

_So basically I'm nesting them one level deeper so that each product can have it's own_ PRODUCT _constant, for instance_

_I just need to split all the product classes into seperate files and fix the require statements and it's ready to PR._

_We've received word from Chef via_ [_@benny Vasquez_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UQC0ABRBQ) _that they've looked into Cinc Auditor and found only one little thing to be objectionable, which we'll be addressing soon. Overall it's great news._

jgitlin shared

_Not much progress on the Cinc Server side, I'm afraid. Been busy with other projects from work._ [_@ramereth_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U2UHD7RQF) _has been improving the server build process and we got a PR over to_ [_@prajakta_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UKKG0LJLU) _for an initial Wordmarks patch_

## **See you next week!**

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