Blog: 2022-10-21: Content & Tooling Team Status Update

Relax it’s Friday!

Hey y’all, it’s Friday! That means it’s time to reflect on the week just passed. We hope you’ve had a good week and are looking forward to a well earned rest this weekend.

puppet-lint 3.0.1 release

Craig worked with ekohl to release puppet-lint 3.0.1 which fixed a regression that stopped plugin authors from consuming the spec helpers from puppet-lint. Big thanks to ekohl for your contributions.

puppet-lint plugin to check for unsafe interpolations

I’ve continued to work on a plugin for puppet-lint which checks for unsafe interpolations in Puppet code. This piece of work comes as part of our efforts to make writing Puppet code more secure.

Community Contributions

We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:

• puppetlabs-accounts#426: “Update bash_profile so that it identifies itself as “Puppet Managed””, thanks to bschonec

• puppetlabs-postgresql#1376: “pg_hba_rule: Validate userinput in postgresql::server”, thanks to bastelfreak

• puppetlabs-stdlib#1280: “Drop Puppet < 3.6 support in package_provider fact”, thanks to ekohl

• puppetlabs-stdlib#1279: “Correct bcrypt salt regex”, thanks to sabo and the following people who helped get it over the line (kenyon)

• puppetlabs-stdlib#1278: “Determine root_home without shelling out”, thanks to ekohl

• puppet-lint#66: “Fix plugin regressions introduced in 3.0.0”, thanks to ekohl

• puppetlabs-kubernetes#581: “etcd data dir path configurable by hiera”, thanks to metode-cz