# Bi-weekly Nebari community meeting | 10 September 2024 🪴💎

###### tags: community-meeting

**Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/rio-ngrj-kyh**
**Moderator: ...**
**Notetaker: ...**

Welcome to the Nebari community meeting!

## Guidelines

* This meeting is covered by [Nebari's Code of Conduct](https://github.com/nebari-dev/governance/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
* Please feel free to participate in open discussions, share your projects, or sit back and listen!
* When you'd like to speak in a discussion, use Google Meet's **"raise hand"** feature, and wait for the moderator to call your name.

## Attendees

_All meeting attendees can add your details here!_

* Prefered name / pronouns (optional) / @github-handle / affiliation (optional)
* Marcelo
* Tyler
* Ken
* Vishnu
* Dharhas
* Chuck
* Vini
* Kim
* Brian
* Adam
* Pavithra

## Introductions

_If you are new to this meeting, this is the time to introduce yourself!_
_We have an introduction template below, but please share what you're comfortbale sharing. :)_

[Quick intro: Hi, I'm ..! I live in ..., and study ... / work as a ... at .... I'm a Nebari user/contributor/maintianer, and I'm primarily i interested in .... In my spare time, I enjoy ...]

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## Updates and announcements

_Share ongoing work, new releases, something cool you built on Nebari, upcoming conferences, and more!_

* The release candidate for our September release of Nebari, `v2024.9.1rc1`, is scheduled for September 12 or 13. For details on all included changes, please refer to the [2024.9.1 milestone](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/milestone/34).
- Some enhancements in this release:
* The ability to configure EKS (AWS) clusters as "private", "public", or "public-and-private". For an overview of these options and their implications on cluster networking, see the control network docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/cluster-endpoint.html) documentation.
* Replacement of gcloud with Python libraries for loading credentials in the nebari-cli and GitHub Actions.
* Default usage of customer-managed keys (CMK) for S3 bucket encryption. For a comprehensive list of security fixes related to this, refer to the [original issue](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/issues/2524).
* Introduction of Rook Ceph
* Introduction of Kuberhealthy
* JupyterHub upgrade to 5.1.0
- Bug fixes:
* General improvements in Ceph initialization and deployment, providing better control over managed resources. Included fix for unexpected storage removal [#2669](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/issues/2669).
* Fixes to nebari guided-init and several other issues.
* Upcoming changes to nebari docs
* New layout including nebari-slurm documentation [#476](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari-docs/pull/476)
* New sidebar organization [#502](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari-docs/pull/502)
* More details on Nebari's permissions scopes/roles system. Including examples for the major services (conda-store, argo, dask). Related docs [issue](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari-docs/issues/513)
* Backup and restore:
* There is an ongoing [issue](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/issues/2657) for installing it on nebari.
* Currently on Keycloak is supported

## Discussion topics

_Is there something we should discuss as a group? Something you want feedback on?_

_Note: If you have a usage question, our [Discussion Forum](https://github.com/orgs/nebari-dev/discussions) would be a place to ask. :)_

* Public Chat Communication Channel
* https://github.com/nebari-dev/governance/issues/53
* Move services into their own Namespaces by default
* https://github.com/nebari-dev/governance/issues/54

## Actions

_Clear action items with an assignee._

- [ ] Assignee - Action item