release gem with latest changes

[ehaselwanter]

would you mind releasing the code as a new gem version to rubygems?

[briangustafson]

We're looking into the schedule for the next release. Is there a particular feature or scenario that you are interested in?

[ehaselwanter]

yes :-)

• Proxy Support
• SSL verify config option (yes. with HTTP Proxies and intended man in the middle attacks ;-)

and down the road:

• windows support

[ehaselwanter]

@briangustafson any news on this one? especially windows support :-)

[briangustafson]

There isn't a specific timeline to support those features, but we are interested in your use cases and that may help prioritize.

For bootstrapping Windows instances, are you able to use "knife bootstrap windows winrm"? (Another method of bootstrapping is shown at https://github.com/oracle/terraform-examples/tree/master/examples/oci/chef, although it doesn't address Windows specifically.)

What are the use cases for proxy support? (Would the addition of --ssh-gateway for "knife oci server create" fulfill this requirement?)

And what is the use case for an "intended man in the middle attack"?

[ehaselwanter]

We are currently using knife and kitchen for linux workloads in oci and want to do the same for windows workloads. From the docs it is not clear if that is supported or not.

So the current focus is more on the test kitchen cycle (I know, this is another project stephenpearson/kitchen-oci#11).

Need to dig into what is needed on the proxy support side. We are behind a corporate firewall and as far as I understand we need to use an http proxy for the och API with our internal http-proxy certificate or the option to switch ssl-verify off for the time being (that is what I meant with intentional man-in-the middle)

[briangustafson]

Thanks for clarifying. Those requests make sense, and we're tracking internally.

I believe that you should be able to accomplish this using "knife bootstrap" for an existing instance (although I haven't tested these options). Would that unblock you for the bootstrapping case?