Semgrep, A Local Rule, A Finding, No Phone Home
semgrep on EL 10 from PyPI into a venv of its own with a link in the PATH; the live test runs pip check, then runs a one-rule file against a matching module with metrics off and the version check off (exit 1) and against a clean one (exit 0); nothing is fetched from the registry. Pinned. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-21 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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Documentation
semgrep
The Semgrep CLI (semgrep) on EL 10, pinned to a version, in a virtual
environment of its own with a link in the PATH. Original role for EL 10,
live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.
There is no package; the documented install is pip. EL 10 carries no
semgrep, and pip install into the system Python ties the CLI's
dependencies to whatever the OS ships. This role puts the CLI in
/opt/semgrep, a venv apart from the system Python: an OS update
cannot break it, and it cannot break the OS. The live test asserts
import semgrep fails in /usr/bin/python3.
Pinned, and checked for consistency. semgrep_version is what gets
installed; the live test runs pip check inside the venv and expects no
broken requirements.
pip verifies nothing beyond TLS. The index is PyPI over HTTPS; there is
no signature to check. For a byte-for-byte pin, give
semgrep_pip_extra_args a requirements file with hashes and
--require-hashes, or a private index.
Proven to run. The live test calls semgrep scan --config /tmp/semgrep-p/rule.yaml /tmp/semgrep-p/app.py --metrics=off --disable-version-check --error --quiet and expects
"iacbazaar-shell-true" - the whole tree loaded and the code scanner did its work.
A local rule, a finding, a clean pass - and no phone home. The
live test writes a one-rule file (a subprocess.call(..., shell=True)
pattern) and a module that matches it, and runs semgrep scan --config <file> with --metrics=off, --disable-version-check and --error:
exit 1 and the rule id for the match, exit 0 for a module that does not
match. Nothing was fetched from the Semgrep registry; the rule file is
the whole configuration. The wheel carries the OCaml engine, which is why
the venv is large.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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