diff --git a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/openstack/manifests/cinder.pp b/puppet-manifests/src/modules/openstack/manifests/cinder.pp
index fa68915fe7..2cef30a78b 100644
--- a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/openstack/manifests/cinder.pp
+++ b/puppet-manifests/src/modules/openstack/manifests/cinder.pp
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ class openstack::cinder
   cinder_config {
     'DEFAULT/my_ip': value => $controller_address;
     'DEFAULT/state_path': value => "${cinder_directory}/data";
-    # Reduce the number of RPCs that can be handled in parallel from the the
+    # Reduce the number of RPCs that can be handled in parallel from the
     # default of 64. Doing too much at once (e.g. creating volumes) results
     # in a lot of thrashing and operations time out.
     # Liberty renamed this from rpc_thread_pool_size to executor_thread_pool_size
diff --git a/puppet-modules-wrs/puppet-nova_api_proxy/src/nova_api_proxy/lib/puppet/provider/proxy_config/ini_setting.rb b/puppet-modules-wrs/puppet-nova_api_proxy/src/nova_api_proxy/lib/puppet/provider/proxy_config/ini_setting.rb
index df2979f80f..126e4d12e9 100644
--- a/puppet-modules-wrs/puppet-nova_api_proxy/src/nova_api_proxy/lib/puppet/provider/proxy_config/ini_setting.rb
+++ b/puppet-modules-wrs/puppet-nova_api_proxy/src/nova_api_proxy/lib/puppet/provider/proxy_config/ini_setting.rb
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ Puppet::Type.type(:proxy_config).provide(
   end
 
   # assumes that the name was the setting
-  # this is to maintain backwards compat with the the older
-  # stuff
+  # this is to maintain backwards compat with the older stuff
   def setting
     resource[:name].split('/', 2)[1]
   end
diff --git a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/api/controllers/v1/cpu.py b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/api/controllers/v1/cpu.py
index bb243927ae..79e6a429a7 100644
--- a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/api/controllers/v1/cpu.py
+++ b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/api/controllers/v1/cpu.py
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ def _update_vswitch_cpu_counts(host, cpu, counts, capabilities=None):
             raise wsme.exc.ClientSideError(_('vSwitch cpus must be non-negative.'))
         if host.hyperthreading:
             # the data structures track the number of logical cpus and the
-            # API expects the the requested count to refer to the number
+            # API expects the requested count to refer to the number
             # of physical cores requested therefore if HT is enabled then
             # multiply the requested number by 2 so that we always reserve a
             # full physical core
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ def _update_shared_cpu_counts(host, cpu, counts, capabilities=None):
             raise wsme.exc.ClientSideError(_('Shared count cannot be > 1.'))
         if host.hyperthreading:
             # the data structures track the number of logical cpus and the
-            # API expects the the requested count to refer to the number
+            # API expects the requested count to refer to the number
             # of physical cores requested therefore if HT is enabled then
             # multiply the requested number by 2 so that we always reserve a
             # full physical core
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ def _update_platform_cpu_counts(host, cpu, counts, capabilities=None):
             raise wsme.exc.ClientSideError(_('Platform cpus must be non-negative.'))
         if host.hyperthreading:
             # the data structures track the number of logical cpus and the
-            # API expects the the requested count to refer to the number
+            # API expects the requested count to refer to the number
             # of physical cores requested therefore if HT is enabled then
             # multiply the requested number by 2 so that we always reserve a
             # full physical core
diff --git a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/common/states.py b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/common/states.py
index 4d2a82ae60..b6d16d4c73 100644
--- a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/common/states.py
+++ b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/common/states.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ validated by the driver. Any node with non-empty `properties` is said to be
 
 When the driver has received both `properties` and `driver_info`, it will check
 the power status of the node and update the `power_state` accordingly. If the
-driver fails to read the the power state from the node, it will reject the
+driver fails to read the power state from the node, it will reject the
 `driver_info` change, and the state will remain as INIT. If the power status
 check succeeds, `power_state` will change to one of POWER_ON or POWER_OFF,
 accordingly.
diff --git a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/common/utils.py b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/common/utils.py
index 686855b385..981dd8b468 100644
--- a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/common/utils.py
+++ b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/common/utils.py
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ def is_valid_boolstr(val):
 
 
 def is_valid_mac(address):
-    """Verify the format of a MAC addres."""
+    """Verify the format of a MAC address."""
     m = "[0-9a-f]{2}([-:])[0-9a-f]{2}(\\1[0-9a-f]{2}){4}$"
     if isinstance(address, six.string_types) and re.match(m, address.lower()):
         return True
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ def is_virtual_compute(ihost):
 def is_low_core_system(ihost, dba):
     """
     Determine if the hosts core count is less than or equal to a xeon-d cpu
-    used with get_required_platform_reserved_memory to set the the required
+    used with get_required_platform_reserved_memory to set the required
     platform memory for xeon-d systems
     """
     cpu_list = dba.icpu_get_by_ihost(ihost['uuid'])
diff --git a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/openstack/common/rpc/proxy.py b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/openstack/common/rpc/proxy.py
index 25c057c83e..ec20d1f577 100644
--- a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/openstack/common/rpc/proxy.py
+++ b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/openstack/common/rpc/proxy.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class RpcProxy(object):
     rpc API.
     """
 
-    # The default namespace, which can be overriden in a subclass.
+    # The default namespace, which can be overridden in a subclass.
     RPC_API_NAMESPACE = None
 
     def __init__(self, topic, default_version, version_cap=None,
diff --git a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/tests/README.txt b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/tests/README.txt
index 5341023e1a..5ca8e36a91 100644
--- a/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/tests/README.txt
+++ b/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/sysinv/tests/README.txt
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ tests/api/test_invservers.py
 tests/conductor/test_manager.py
     test_configure_ihost_new
         IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/dnsmasq.hosts'
-        This directory does not exist. I am not sure if this this directory is
+        This directory does not exist. I am not sure if this directory is
         still supposed to exist, if it has moved, or if this entire test is
         based on deprecated/replaced functionality.