Cookstyle 5.3 released with 5 new Chef cops!

Chef Release Announcements
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Hey folks,

Another week passes by and with it we have another release of Cookstyle giving you new Chef cops to test your cookbooks.

New Chef Cops

Chef/IncludingAptDefaultRecipe

The IncludingAptDefaultRecipe cop detects cookbooks that include the apt::default cookbook in order to run the apt-get update command. Users should use Chef Infra Client's built in apt_update resource instead.

Enabled by default: True

Autocorrects: No, due to potential notifications to these resources, which need to be updated.

Chef/ExecuteAptUpdate

The ExecuteAptUpdate cop detects the use of an execute resource to run the apt-get update command. Users should use Chef Infra Client's built in apt_update resource instead.

Enabled by default: True

Autocorrects: No, due to potential notifications to these resources, which need to be updated.

Chef/IncludingWindowsDefaultRecipe

The IncludingWindowsDefaultRecipe detects cookbooks that include the windows::default recipe. This recipe installs gems that ship as part of Chef Infra Client 12.0+ and do not need to be installed again.

Enabled by default: True

Autocorrects: Yes

Chef/IncludingYumDNFCompatRecipe

The IncludingYumDNFCompatRecipe detects cookbooks that include the yum::dnf_yum_compat recipe in order to install yum libraries on systems that use DNF as their default package manager. Chef Infra Client 12.18 and later support the native installation of packages using DNF.

Enabled by default: True

Autocorrects: Yes

Chef/DefinesChefSpecMatchers

The DefinesChefSpecMatchers detects cookbooks that ship ChefSpec matchers. ChefSpec 7.1 and later automatically generate ChefSpec matchers for testing resources, so these ChefSpec matchers no longer need to be shipped with cookbooks.

Enabled by default: True

Autocorrects: Yes. This may result in an empty libraries/matchers.rb file, which can then be deleted.

Other fixes and changes

  • Chef/InvalidLicenseString now auto-corrects Apache v2.0 to Apache-2.0
  • Chef/CommentFormat better handles leading spaces in comments when auto-correcting
  • Testing has been expanded to include testing of auto-correct functionality

Enjoy,
Tim