Meeting Notes for September 23, 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

Kiah Tolliver shared

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This week’s releases

Chef Automate

benny Vasquez shared

Chef Habitat

benny Vasquez shared

Chef Infra Server

benny Vasquez shared

Chef Infra Client

Kiah Tolliver shared

Chef Infra Client Released with some bug fixes and feature additions, read more about that here.

Chef Inspec

benny Vasquez shared

Chef Workstation

benny Vasquez shared

Other releases

tas50 shared

Updates

Chef Automate

Ankur Mundhra shared

Automate updates:
Expanded data feed integrations (in beta) to Elk/Kibana, custom web hook, MinIO and Amazon S3
Enhanced UI for data feed integration setup, list preview and details sections
Ability to opt-out of sharing usage data has moved to user profile page
New events service to send compliance stats data on application load
Added validation checks for host HTTP header for incoming requests to reduce security concerns
Infra server view improvements: either FQDN or IP Address will be required while adding server, disabled editing of encrypted data bags, consistence search experience across different resources, verbiage consistency across pages and more
Automate-cluster-ctl commands have moved into automate repository
A dozen strong HA service components have been added to automate repository
Move to stable channel of had package refresh

Chef Habitat

mwrockx shared

Hello from Habitat!
This week's updates are:

  • Performing some post refresh cleanup
  • Spiking on a neo4j build order calculation
  • NATS library overhaul
  • Investigating builder bug not rendering all releases
  • Fixed post refresh issues with habitat verify pipeline

Chef Infra Client

tas50 shared

What's up everyone

We have a few nice things for this week in Infra

  • First off our Releng team delivered an early Christmas present with some nice build improvements which means we now have Debian 11 amd64/arm64 and Windows 11 / 2022 packages
  • We added a new http_options property to the remote_file resource so you can set all kinds of fun HTTP options now. We also cleaned up the docs last night with better examples. Enjoy
  • The registry_key got some tech debt cleanup with the values property becoming an actual property under the hood. This means you can now lazily evaluate data you shove into the resource
  • We are very close to merging our new Compliance Phase improvements. I know I said that last week. Turns out I was totally wrong. This time I'm totally right
  • With the Compliance Phase improvements merged we're going to try to get 17.5 out the door. So close Pending Release Notes · chef/chef Wiki

This is another big one if you check those release notes. The changes to the Compliance Phase are a pretty big shift in how Infra and Compliance work together so make sure to check it out.

I also have a few other non-client things to announce

Supermarket!!!!

  • We updated the out of the SSL config to be TLS 1.2 only by default now
  • We fixed search rendering issues on mobile browsers. This was real annoying and it's finally fixed
  • Pending docs review on the release notes we'll ship 4.0 today. This is a pretty significant tech debt cleanup for Supermarket and it does include some breaking changes. I'm also very excited for this release because it gets us ready to make some actual functional changes in the upcoming releases: Pending Release Notes · chef/supermarket Wiki

And lastly Chef Manage. Our forever nearing EOL UI:

We are prepping our 3.1 release with Ruby and Rails getting upgraded to the latest and a few more security fixes merged. This is going to be a nice cleanup release and hopefully one of our last as we continue to move this experience over to Automate itself.

Chef Infra Server

Lincoln Baker shared

  • Adding policy group list to the to the policy revision API.
  • Adding configurable option to run nginx master process as non-root user.
  • Investigating very high cpu usage and associated 500 errors seen in some configurations.
  • Upgrading to PostgreSQL 13.4.
  • Making display of x-ops-api-info a configurable.

Chef Inspec

cwolfe shared

The Chef InSpec team has been working on:

  • Various fixes to database resources
  • Documentation updates to standardize property listings on resource docs
  • Support for Cassandra DB

Chef Workstation

Vikram Karve shared

Hi All! Here are the updates from Workstation team

Ready-for-release

  • Added splash screen to workstation app
  • Updated chef-vault with regression fixed

Work-in-progress

  • Implementing integration tests for Go based changes (contd)
  • Updating unit tests in chef-cli Cobra framework adoption (contd)
  • Fixing our Omnibus based release pipeline
  • Triaging & addressing customer issues & bugs

What else?

  • Three new team members joined our team and they getting onboarded

Sous Chefs

ramereth shared

Hello from Sous Chefs!

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

  • apparmor - 4.1.0:
  • Fix issues when running in a docker container
  • Fix disabling apparmor on Ubuntu 18.04
  • Set delay_mins to 1 to help with CI problems
  • chef-splunk - 8.0.0:
  • Remove systemd? method and use internal one instead
  • Fix and update ChefSpec
  • Add unified_mode: true to resources
  • Remove dependency on chef-vault cookbook
  • chef-splunk - 9.0.0:
  • Require Chef 16 for Chef Vault functionality
  • docker - 9.6.1: Update exec resource to use partial/_base
  • docker - 9.7.0: Move the docker_image library to a custom resource
  • iis - 8.0.0:
  • Add unified_mode: true to resources
  • Moved http_acl and certificate_binding resources from windows cookbook
  • Bump to require Chef >= 15.3
  • java - 10.0.1: Github CI workflow fixes
  • line - 4.4.1: Update documentation
  • mysql - 11.0.0:
  • Cookstyle fixes
  • Enable unified_mode on all resources
  • Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.5
  • percona - 3.0.0
  • Enable unified_mode on all resources
  • Remove dependency on openssl cookbook and create percona_secure_random method to replace that functionality
  • Remove dependency on chef-vault cookbook and require Chef >= 16
  • Use full gpg key id for apt repos and switch to using keyserver.ubuntu.com
  • Move mysql dnf module disabling to before yum repos
  • vcruntime - 2.2.7: Update vc14 checksum for new release 14.29.30133.0

We have 2 spaces on the board and 2 people wanting to be on the board, so no vote is required.Our 2021 Board will be:

@damacus will be acting as the Chef employee liaison for Sous Chefs. If he's unavailable, we'll reach out to folks in #devrel

Thanks to @tas50 and @Xorima for all their hard work in the past year on the board

Cinc Updates

ramereth shared

Hello from the Cinc Project!

Cinc Client

  • Released of 16.15.22

@jgitlin has a PR open in chef-server with the first pass of word mark replacements using the chef-utils constants.

It's just going to take time to do as there is A LOT to it

We'll also be adding Debian 11 builds to various projects as new releases come out. The Cinc Client 16.15 is the first to include it along with the latest Cinc Workstation build

We'll hopefully be looking into builds for the newer MacOS versions, but the current builds should work I think

Other updates

See you next week!

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