Vmware Workstation Pro Changelog

[Roman Bayramdurdiyev]

Weintroduced support for Compliance Phase in the chef generate command. You can now create an InSpec profile, an input file, or a waiver file using the chef generate profile, chef generate input, or chef generate waiver commands. These files are created in the compliance subfolder within the cookbook folder of your repo.

We updated Cookstyle from 7.31.1 to 7.31.7. This release updates the underlying RuboCop engine used by Cookstyle to 1.25.1, fixes a number of bugs, and improves issue detection in the Chef/Modernize/CronDFileOrTemplate cop. Thanks for these improvements @yacn!

We updated the chef-run command for ad-hoc execution of Chef Infra Client on remote systems to support running on AIX systems. chef-run can now remotely manage Linux, macOS, Windows, Solaris, and AIX systems.

We updated Chef Infra Client from 17.9.18 to 17.9.26. This update includes a fix for failures when running the homebrew_tap resource that was introduced in 17.9.18. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a complete list of new features and updates.

We updated the version of the curl command-line tool bundled with Chef Workstation from 7.80 to 7.81. This new release includes a large number of bug fixes. See the curl 7.81 changelog for more information.

We removed the Delivery CLI tool from Chef Workstation as part of the December 31, 2020 end-of-life for Chef Workflow and Chef Delivery. Running this command will now show a warning and exit. We updated the chef cookbook generate commands so they no longer generate Workflow or Delivery content. We also added a new Cookstyle cop Chef/Deprecations/Delivery to detect cookbooks shipping with a .delivery/project.toml config.

Updated Chef Infra Client from 17.8.25 to 17.9.18 with improvements to YUM support in the package resource, improved detection of VMware hypervisors, and supports for HashiCorp Vault Approle authentication in the secrets helper. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a complete list of new features and updates.

Updated Cookstyle from 7.25.10 to 7.26.1. This new version includes an updated RuboCop engine with improvements for code linting. New Style/FileRead and Style/FileWrite cops are also enabled to simplify file read/write code in libraries and resources.

Updated the Test Kitchen kitchen-ec2 plugin from 3.11.1 to 3.12.0. This new release allows you to define multiple tags in the subnet_filter configuration and ensures the system is properly terminated if there is a failure during the instance creation. Thanks for these improvements @jakauppila!

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 17.6.18 to 17.7.29 with improved secrets manager support for Azure Key Vault, improvements to agentless Chef Infra Client runs with Target Mode, and multiple updated resources. See the Chef Infra Client 17.7.22 Release Notes and Chef Infra Client 17.7.29 Release Notes for more details.

The Test Kitchen plugin kitchen-dokken now includes colored output in the terminal to distinguish between multiple nodes converging at the same time and also includes improved support for Docker on Windows.

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 17.4.38 to 17.6.18. This new release supports shipping InSpec profiles directly in cookbooks with a new compliance directory in cookbooks. It also adds support to the secrets helper for fetching secrets from HashiCorp Vault as well as Akeyless Vault. For a complete list of everything new in this release see the Chef Infra Client Release Notes.

Test Kitchen now supports certificate authentication with the WinRM transport. New WinRM transport configuration options client_cert and client_key control the certificate authentication behavior. See the WinRM Transport Documentation for more information on this transport and these new configuration options. Thanks for adding this new capability @gholtiii!

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 17.3.48 to 17.4.38. This new release includes a large number of improvements to the Infra Client Compliance Phase, simplifies fetching secrets with the secrets helper, and improves a large number of built-in resources. For a complete list of everything new in this release, see the Chef Infra Client 17.4 Release Notes

The chef-run command for ad-hoc execution of Chef Infra Client on remote systems has been updated to support running on Solaris systems. chef-run can now remotely manage Linux, macOS, Windows, and Solaris systems, with AIX support coming soon!

The Test Kitchen driver for VMware VCenter has been updated to avoid targeting ESXi systems in maintenance mode and to provide better errors when resources are not found or the client lacks permissions on the cluster. Thanks for these improvements @tecracer-theinen!

The Test Kitchen driver for Microsoft Hyper-V received updates to allow specifying remote Hyper-V hosts. See the driver documentation for more details on specifying remote hosts. Thanks for this new feature @tecracer-theinen!

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 17.2.29 to 17.3.48. This new release includes large improvements to Policyfiles, 9 new built-in resources, and initial support for fetching secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault. See the 17.3 release notes for more information.

We added Chef InSpec-specific Cookstyle Cops to the InSpec/Deprecations department. These cops help with the migration from InSpec attributes to inputs. Watch for additional deprecation and correctness cops for InSpec in the future. You can also request a new cop for Chef InSpec!

The Chef/Deprecations/AttributeDefault cop detects Chef InSpec profiles that use the deprecated pattern of passing the default option to attribute or input helpers instead of passing it to the newer value option.

The Chef/Deprecations/PolicyfileCommunitySource cop detects Policyfile.rb files that set a default_source of :community. This source is deprecated and is an alias to the :supermarket source, which should be used instead.

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 17.1 to 17.2. This release includes a new --slow-report flag for displaying the slowest resources in a client run, improved allowlist/denylist functionality with Automate reporting, and many improved resources. See the Chef Infra Client Release Notes for complete details

The knife-azure plugin has been updated from 3.0.6 to 4.0.0. This major release removes the legacy knife azure commands that were based on the Azure ASM API deprecated in 2018. knife azurerm commands will continue to function as they are based on the modern Azure ARM API.

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 17.0 to 17.1. This new release includes improvements to the Chef Infra Client Compliance Phase, Unified Mode improvements, and updates to many built-in resources. See the Chef Infra Client 17.1 Release Notes for details on new functionality.

Chef Workstation 21.5.420 introduced a regression causing failures when running some knife commands. We are currently working towards a fix for this issue which we hope to ship in the next release of Chef Workstation. If you encounter failures running knife commands, please install Chef Workstation 21.4.365

The kitchen-digitalocean driver update removes support for legacy platform values that no longer exist on Digital Ocean: CoreOS, Ubuntu17, CentOS6 and it adds support for RancherOS. The Test Kitchen docs have a new Digital Ocean getting started guide.

The Amazon AWS kitchen-ec2 driver update adds support for GP3 EBS volume types on instances and proper cleanup of EBS volumes on termination on RHEL-based platforms. Thanks for the GP3 fix @bdwyertech!

The chef generate cookbook --kitchen dokken command will now generate a Kitchen Dokken config that runs the container in privileged mode by default. This is necessary for testing any cookbook which includes a systemd unit. Since most cookbooks tested with Kitchen Dokken manage services this will make it easier to switch to Kitchen Dokken for quick test cycles.

The storage_account_type config option in the azurerm plugin is now honored. This allows you to set storage_account_type: Standard_LRS to use non-SSD disks in Azure. Thanks for this fix @reasland and @Dreweasland!

The openstack Test Kitchen driver now includes a new cloud_config config option that allows you to pass config options to cloud-init for setting up systems before Chef Infra Client runs. Thanks for this improvement @JimScadden!

Several potential race conditions in Berkshelf have been resolved. This may improve the reliability of testing multiple instances in Test Kitchen when Berkshelf is used for cookbook dependency resolution.

Chef Workstation now ships with Chef Infra Client 16.10. This new release includes expanded AWS Metadata support including IMDSv2 support, Alma Linux support, and resource updates. See the Chef Infra Client 16.10 Release Notes for more details on everything new in this release.

Test Kitchen now allows you to upload files from your workstation to the test node within the provisioner. The new uploads config accepts a hash mapping local files to files on the remote test node. Thanks for this new feature @tecracer-theinen!

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