diff --git a/layers/meta-belden-coreos/classes/coreos-image-ci.bbclass b/layers/meta-belden-coreos/classes/coreos-image-ci.bbclass
index 6138203..0d30147 100644
--- a/layers/meta-belden-coreos/classes/coreos-image-ci.bbclass
+++ b/layers/meta-belden-coreos/classes/coreos-image-ci.bbclass
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ def get_coreos_ci_artifacts(d):
     # Container handling
     # ==========================================================================
     
-    if(bb.utils.contains('IMAGE_FSTYPES', 'oci', True, False, d)):
+    if bb.utils.contains('IMAGE_FSTYPES', 'oci', True, False, d):
 
         artifacts.append(d.getVar('IMAGE_LINK_NAME') + '.rootfs-oci.tar')
         
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ def get_coreos_ci_artifacts(d):
     # SDCard image and Swupdate image
     # ==========================================================================
 
-    if(bb.utils.contains('IMAGE_FSTYPES', 'wic.xz', True, False, d)):
+    if bb.utils.contains('IMAGE_FSTYPES', 'wic.xz', True, False, d):
         artifacts.append(d.getVar('IMAGE_LINK_NAME') + '.wic.xz')
     
-    if(bb.utils.contains('IMAGE_FSTYPES', 'wic.bmap', True, False, d)):
+    if bb.utils.contains('IMAGE_FSTYPES', 'wic.bmap', True, False, d):
         artifacts.append(d.getVar('IMAGE_LINK_NAME') + '.wic.bmap')
 
-    if(d.getVar('COREOS_IMAGE_GENERATE_SWU') == '1'):
+    if d.getVar('COREOS_IMAGE_GENERATE_SWU') == '1':
         artifacts.append(d.getVar('IMAGE_LINK_NAME') + '.swu')
 
     # Kernel
@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ def get_coreos_ci_artifacts(d):
     kernel_image_bin_ext = d.getVar('KERNEL_IMAGE_BIN_EXT') or ''
     artifacts.append(kernel_imagetype + '-' + machine + kernel_image_bin_ext)
 
-    if(d.getVar('COREOS_IMAGE_GENERATE_UKI') == '1'):
+    if d.getVar('COREOS_IMAGE_GENERATE_UKI') == '1':
         artifacts.append(d.getVar('COREOS_KERNEL0_FILENAME'))   
         artifacts.append(d.getVar('COREOS_KERNEL1_FILENAME'))   
 
     # Bootloaders
     # ==========================================================================
-    if('efi' in d.getVar('MACHINE_FEATURES', ''):
-        if(d.getVar('EFI_PROVIDER', "") == 'efibootguard'):
+    if 'efi' in d.getVar('MACHINE_FEATURES', ''):
+        if d.getVar('EFI_PROVIDER', "") == 'efibootguard':
             efi_arch = d.getVar('EFI_ARCH')
             artifacts.append('efibootguard' + efi_arch + '.efi')