Cookstyle 6.1.6 released with 5 new Chef cops!

Chef Release Announcements
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Hey everyone,

This week's new release of Cookstyle is out with 5 new Chef Infra cops bringing our total to 184 Chef Infra specific cops!

ChefModernize/NodeRolesInclude

The ChefModernize/NodeRolesInclude cop detects cookbooks that use node['roles'].include?('foo') to see if a particular role has been applied to a node. Use the simpler node.role?('foo') helper instead.

Enabled by default: True

Autocorrects: Yes

ChefDeprecations/PowershellCookbookHelpers

The ChefDeprecations/PowershellCookbookHelpers cop detects cookbooks that use the deprecated Powershell::VersionHelper.powershell_version? helper from the powershell cookbook. Chef Infra Client provides information on the installed PowerShell release at node['powershell']['version'] and Chef Infra Client 15.8 and later includes a new powershell_version method which should be used when possible.

Enabled by default: True

Autocorrects: Yes

ChefCorrectness/ConditionalRubyShellout

The ChefCorrectness/ConditionalRubyShellout cop detects resources that use unnecessary Ruby code in not_if and only_if conditionals to shellout when a string can be used to avoid additional complexity.

Shelling out with ruby:

cookbook_file '/logs/foo/error.log' do
  only_if { system('wget https://www.bar.com/foobar.txt -O /dev/null') }
end

Shelling out without Ruby:

cookbook_file '/logs/foo/error.log' do
  only_if 'wget https://www.bar.com/foobar.txt -O /dev/null'
end

Enabled by default: True

Autocorrects: Yes

ChefSharing/IncludePropertyDescriptions

The ChefSharing/IncludePropertyDescriptions cop detects resource properties that don't include a description value. The chef-resource-inspector command displays the description value in resource properties and that description can be used to automatically generate documentation.

Enabled by default: False

Autocorrects: No

ChefSharing/IncludeResourceDescriptions

The ChefSharing/IncludeResourceDescriptions cop detects resources that don't include a description. The chef-resource-inspector command displays the description value in resources and that description can be used to automatically generate documentation.

Enabled by default: False

Autocorrects: No

Other Changes

  • ChefModernize/PowershellInstallWindowsFeature now correctly identifies the required Chef Infra Client release as 14.0 and later.
  • The WindowsVersionHelper cop has been moved to the ChefDeprecations department and now includes autocorrection for each of the helpers it identifies.

Enjoy,
Tim