# Meeting notes for September 16th, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-september-16th-2021/20303>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [September 16, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-september-16th-2021/20303 "2021-09-16T19:57:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-september-16th-2021/20303/1 "2021-09-16T19:57:28Z")

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NOTE: Adding this to the top, so it doesn’t get missed:

> It's that time of the year again for the **Sous Chef Board candidate selection**. If you would like to be considered for the Sous Chef board - add your name [here](https://forms.gle/SanxeKBCLKWrDbd78). The candidate selection will end at the end of today!

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**

benny Vasquez shared

_Up first, and in case you missed it, we launched the_ [_Automate for Good Hackathon_](https://chef-hackathon.devpost.com/) _at_ [_#chefconf_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CQM00GNNL) _last week. You’ve got just over 5 more weeks to show us how you improve lives through automation and earn your part of $60k in prizes (1st place takes home $15,000). We’re live-streaming every Tuesday with important topics around the hackathon, so keep an eye out and join_ [_#hackathon_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/C02CVFP64AE) _for news and excitement there._

 ![Webinar Promo 1 TW 1024x512_RITM0127883](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/chef/original/2X/1/1ca8f8fcc1d10ce00599658a7e8f3fae472bf0d6.jpeg)

_Speaking of ChefConf, all of the sessions (except the coffee chats which were not recorded and were honestly really fun) are now available on-demand, including both keynotes and the live Q&A that we did on day 2._ [Dive into DevOps Excellence at Chef Roadshow 2024 | Chef](https://www.chef.io/chefconf/agenda)

_And one more thing from me:_ [_@kgarmoe_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U3C9KE0AF) _is working on updating the navigation on_ [_docs.chef.io_](http://docs.chef.io/) _with the goal of a unified navigation scheme where each product follows THE SAME headers. Initially it’ll be in an a/b test (that launches today), but we’ll be rolling out changes between now and December 1st. If you want to see some of it, this PR talks a bit about the updates on the Infra side:_ [Infra Nav Update by kagarmoe · Pull Request #3330 · chef/chef-web-docs · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef-web-docs/pull/3330)

_From her: “The most important parts here are 1. these changes will happen over the next 10 weeks, large changes at first and then smaller refinements. And 2. There will be A\B testing, so the 30% of the time folks will see something provisional, and then you may never see that particular thing again.”_

_If you wanna share feedback about that as we’re going, you can send it to_ [_docs@chef.io_](mailto:docs@chef.io)

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

benny Vasquez shared

_And the Chef Automate team put out another impressive release with new features, improvements, and a slew of Compliance Profile updates:_ [Automate 2 version 20210907035717 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20210907035717-released/20277) _._

**Chef Habitat**

benny Vasquez shared

_The Habitat team had a pretty massive update this week, with a core-plan refresh that’s been months in the building. I’m sure_ [_@mwrockx_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1QBBADMM) _will talk a bit more about it, but here’s the Discourse link:_ [Habitat Package Refresh 2021](https://discourse.chef.io/t/habitat-package-refresh-2021/20275)

**Chef Infra Server**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Infra Server had a release with a few updates (including OpenSSL, OpenJDK, and libearchive) and some bug fixes:_ [Chef Infra Server 14.9.23 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-server-14-9-23-released/20276)

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

benny shared, on behalf of Ankur Mundhra:

_Automate team is working on:_

- _Data feed feature: Integration with ServiceNow, Splunk, Minio and more using consistent UI in an easy way._
- _Components for Automate HA being moved to automate repository_
- _Web session timeout and idle timeout capability_
- _Improvements and feature expansion, like runlist dependencies on policyfile and policy group views_
- _Telemetry improvements with simpler flows_

**Chef Habitat**

mwrockx shared

_Hello from Habitat!_

_This week's updates are:_

- _Finalized and released core-plans refresh_
- _Performing some post refresh grooming and cleanup_
- _Spiking on a neo4j build order calculation_
- _NATS library overhaul_
- _Investigating builder bug not rendering all releases_
- _Troubleshooting post refresh issues with habitat verify pipeline_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_We have some great stuff in the works for Infra Client that's just about ready to release_

- _We're very close to merging our updates to compliance phase that allows you to ship compliance content directly in your cookbooks so you can develop and ship compliance/infra content in a single CI pipeline._
  - _Once the Compliance Phase updates are merged we'll ship 17.5. Here's what's new so far:_ [Home · chef/chef Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef/wiki/Pending-Release-Notes)
  - _We added HashiCorp Vault token fetching support to the secrets helper_
  - _We added Akeyless Vault token fetching support to the secrets helper_
  - _Our corefoundation gem is coming along nicely and this is going to let us manage Mac resources natively using Apple's APIs instead of their often incomplete CLI tools._
  - _We got some great community PRs this week:_
    - _The mount resource now allows you to mount devices to root_
    - _The chef\_client\_scheduled\_task resource has a new_ priority _property and a_ use\_consistent\_splay _property so that it always uses the same random splay per node._
    - _The CLI_ --recipe-url _flag now accepts S3 buckets so you can store Solo content in S3 and pull it directly to nodes._

**Chef Infra Server**

benny shared, on behalf of Vinay Satish

_Hi All! There were a couple of updates from Chef Infra Server this week_

- _Chef Infra Server 14.9.23 was released:_ [Chef Infra Server 14.9.23 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-server-14-9-23-released/20276)
- _The bug for Automate build are fixed with the release_
- _Updated OpenSSL from 1.0.2y to 1.0.2za_
- _Updated OpenJDK JRE used to run Elasticsearch from 11.0.11+9 to 11.0.12+7_
- _The postgresql is set to 13.3 to support all possible upgrade scenarios_
- _We started looking into a issue where the CPU started shooting up in case of upgrade from 12.x version:_ [Chef CPU high usage and web server failing · Issue #2787 · chef/chef-server · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2787)
- _We started working on how to support all the chef server manage features into automate UI_

**Chef Inspec**

cwolfe shared

_The Chef InSpec team has been working on:_

- _Integrating_ cookstyle _with_ inspec check
- _Making --tags and --controls work with dependent profiles_
- _Making the_ csv _resource work when headers are not present_
- _Various fixes to database resources_

**Chef Workstation**

Vikram Karve shared

_Hi All! Here are the updates from Workstation team_

_We released a new_ [_version_](https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_workstation/?v=21.9.613) _of Chef Workstation that includes many updates including the ones below_

- _Solaris support in chef-run_
- _Updated Cookstyle with 17 new cops & improved performance_
- _Numerous InSpec fixes_
- _Optimised_ chef -v _Go implementation is merged to main, speeding up runtime by 10x & more_
- _Workstation app, kitchen-vagrant plugin fixes and updates_

_Some release related documentation updates & Slack notifications failed and we are working to fix our Buildkite release pipeline_

_Ready-for-release_

- _Added splash screen to workstation app_

_Work-in-progress_

- _Implementing integration tests for Go-based changes_
- _Updating unit tests in chef-cli Cobra framework adoption_
- _Fixing our Omnibus based release and PR verify pipelines_
- _Triaging & addressing customer issues & bugs_

_And we learnt a lot from the presenters at ChefConf!_

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Hello from Sous Chefs! It's that time of the year again for the **Sous Chef Board candidate selection**. If you would like to be considered for the Sous Chef board - add your name_ [_here_](https://forms.gle/SanxeKBCLKWrDbd78) _. The candidate selection will end at the end of today!_

_It's been a busy_ two _weeks so I have a lot of updates. I'll try not to show everything at once today. Here's the list of new releases in the past week:_

- _apparmor - 4.0.0_
  - _Sous Chef Adoption_
  - _Enable_ unified\_mode _and require Chef 15.3 or later_
  - _Add_ node['apparmor']['automatic\_reboot'] _attribute which is set to false by default to allow for automatic rebooting after enabling or disabling AppArmor_
  - _Add grub config to set_ apparmor=0 _when being disabled_
  - _Run_ aa-remove-unknown _when removing a policy so that it gets properly removed_
  - _Add Debian testing_

- _aptly - 3.1.0_
  - _Add switch action to_ aptly\_publish _resource_
  - _Add Ubuntu 20.04 to testing matrix & remove Ubuntu 16.04_

- _confluence - 2.6.3: Cookstyle fixes_

_Next we have a lot of updates on the docker cookbook (mostly by_ [_@damacus_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1QLQQV5X) _):_

- _docker - 8.2.3: Fix private registries credentials handling and public registries_

- _docker - 8.2.4: Ensure_ docker\_container :health\_check _is idempotent_

- _docker - 8.3.0: Remove Ubuntu 16.04 from the GitHub Actions test matrix & Add amazonlinux-2 to the test matrix_

- _docker - 9.0.0_

- _docker - 9.1.0: Move the_ docker\_container _resource to a custom resource_

- _docker - 9.2.0: Move the_ docker\_exec _library to a custom resource_

- _docker - 9.3.0: Update and sync log drivers list for_ docker\_service\_manager _and_ docker\_container

- _docker - 9.3.1: Move the Docker log properties to a partial_

- _docker - 9.4.0: Add_ ip _and_ ip6 _properties to_ docker\_network

- _docker - 9.5.0: Move the_ docker\_network _library to a custom resource_

- _docker - 9.6.0: Move the_ docker\_plugin _library to a custom resource_

- _firewall - 4.0.0_

- _github - 1.0.0_

- _jenkins - 9.4.0: Add_ user _and_ password _to_ jenkins\_proxy

- _jenkins - 9.5.0: Add new attribute_ repository\_name _to set the name of the repository_

- _line - 4.4.0: Cookstyle fixes_

- _nginx - 12.0.6_

- _nodejs - 9.0.0_

- _ossec - 1.2.5: Cookstyle fixes_

- _php - 9.0.0: Enable_ unified\_mode _for Chef 17 compatibility_

- _redisio - 5.0.0: Cookstyle fixes_

- _redisio - 6.0.0_

- _redisio - 6.1.0: Add protected mode to sentinel configuration file_

- _selinux - 6.0.0:_

- _sql\_server - 7.0.0_

- _sql\_server - 8.0.0:_

_The_ selinux\_policy _cookbook will be deprecated soon in favor of the_ selinux _cookbook. Thanks to_ [_@Robert Detjens_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UUTQ3RB52) _, we have imported all of the resources from that cookbook to the_ selinux _cookbook reducing the need for both cookbooks. There will be a final release to update the README before moving it to the boneyard._

_We also recently imported the bind and nfs cookbooks which we'll be properly adopting soon and cleaning up._

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Workstation_

- _Released of 21.9.613 via unstable channel_
- _This included some fun changes in_ main-chef-wrapper _that we had to adjust for_

_Cinc Server_

- _First pass of upstream word mark replacements is up_ [https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2808](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2808) _(thanks_ [_@jgitlin_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UVANM7LTX) _)_
- _We still haven't had time to look into the build/runtime issues with the last few releases. Hopefully we'll get a chance to look at this more in the coming week(s)_

**Other updates**

tas50 shared

_Supermarket 4.0 is about ready to ship. We're just waiting on an all new Supermarket staging/prod environment that's being built out by our Ops team. Once we do a bit more validation in staging we'll ship that out. Here's everything that's new:_ [Pending Release Notes · chef/supermarket Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/supermarket/wiki/Pending-Release-Notes)

_Chef Mange 3.1 is also about ready to ship. We just merged in a nice big tech-debt upgrade there: Rails 5.2 -\> 6.1, Ruby 2.6 -\> 2.7, and Chef Infra Client 15 -\> 16_

## **See you next week!**

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