puppet-ghostbuster

When you have dead puppet code hanging around ... Who you gonna call ?

This gems helps puppet users to find dead code by displaying unused classes, defined resources, template and files.

This gems only support PuppetDB APi v4 (PuppetDB 3+)

$ find . -type f -exec puppet-lint --only-checks ghostbuster_classes,ghostbuster_defines,ghostbuster_facts,ghostbuster_files,ghostbuster_functions,ghostbuster_hiera_files,ghostbuster_templates,ghostbuster_types {} \+

The location of the hiera.yaml file. Defaults to ./hiera.yaml or /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hiera.yaml whichever is found first.

The url or the PuppetDB. Defaults to http://puppetdb:8080

Your site’s CA certificate

An SSL certificate signed by your site’s Puppet CA

The private key for that certificate

If set, PE token authentication will be used instead of certificate authentication. Value may be a token or path to a file containing a token.

Find unused classes in PuppetDB.

Find unused defined types in PuppetDB.

Find unused facts in Puppet manifests and templates.

Find unused files in PuppetDB or in Puppet manifests.

Find unused functions in Puppet manifests or templates.

Find unused hiera files in PuppetDB.

Find unused templates in Puppet manifests.

Find unused types in Puppet manifests.

TODO

$ find . -type f -exec puppet-lint --only-checks ghostbuster_classes,ghostbuster_defines,ghostbuster_files,ghostbuster_hiera_files,ghostbuster_templates {} \+
./modules/foo/manifests/install.pp - WARNING: Class Foo::Install seems unused on line 1
./modules/foo/manifests/service.pp - WARNING: Class Foo::Service seems unused on line 1
./modules/foo/manifests/init.pp - WARNING: Class Foo seems unused on line 1
./modules/bar/manifests/baz.pp - WARNING: Define Bar::Baz seems unused on line 1
./modules/modulename/templates/foo.erb - WARNING: Template modulename/foo.erb seems unused on line 1
./modules/modulename/templates/bar.erb - WARNING: Template modulename/bar.erb seems unused on line 1
./modules/modulename/templates/baz.erb - WARNING: Template modulename/baz.erb seems unused on line 1
./modules/foo/files/bar.txt - WARNING: File foo/bar.txt seems unused on line 1
./modules/foo/files/baz.txt - WARNING: File foo/baz.txt seems unused on line 1

This plugin was originally authored by Camptocamp. The maintainer preferred that Puppet Community take ownership of the module for future improvement and maintenance. Existing pull requests and issues were transferred over, please fork and continue to contribute here instead of Camptocamp.

Previously: https://github.com/camptocamp/puppet-ghostbuster