puppet-lint-exec_idempotency-check

A puppet-lint plugin to check the idempotency attributes on exec resources.

Installing

From the command line

$ gem install puppet-lint-exec_idempotency-check

In a Gemfile

gem 'puppet-lint-exec_idempotency-check', :require => false

Checks

Ensure idempotency attributes are set on exec resource

When using exec resource it is highly recommended to take care on idempotency. That means, that we need a check to verify if the command should be run again or is required to run at all.

The following attributes control this behavior:

• creates: checks if a directory or file exists
• onlyif or unless: execute checks to verify idempotency
• refreshonly: only run the exec if it is triggered by another reosurce

What you have done

exec { '/bin/apt update':
}

What you should have done

exec { '/bin/apt update':
  refreshonly => true,
}

Disabling the check

To disable this check, you can add --no-exec_idempotency-check to your puppet-lint command line.

$ puppet-lint --no-exec_idempotency-check path/to/file.pp

Alternatively, if you’re calling puppet-lint via the Rake task, you should insert the following line to your Rakefile.

PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_exec_idempotency')

License

TBD

Release information

To make a new release, please do:

• update the version in the gemspec file
• Install gems with bundle install --with release --path .vendor
• generate the changelog with bundle exec rake changelog
• Check if the new version matches the closed issues/PRs in the changelog
• Create a PR with it
• After it got merged, push a tag. GitHub actions will do the actual release to rubygems and GitHub Packages