Creating Custom Rules for Ansible Lint

What is Ansible Lint? 

Ansible Lint is a command-line tool (part of the ansible-lint upstream community project) for linting of Ansible Playbooks, Roles, and Collections. Ok, so what exactly is “linting?” Its fundamental objective is to promote proven behaviors, patterns, and practices while avoiding typical traps that can quickly result in errors or make code more difficult to maintain. That is - leverage community recommendations and opinions in writing Ansible content by means of a tool to help ensure what you’re writing is generally valid.

Additionally, Ansible Lint is designed to assist users in updating their code to function with more recent Ansible versions. Even though the version of Ansible being used in production can be an older version of ansible-core, we advise utilizing it with the most recent version.

Ansible Lint is opinionated just like any other linter. However, because community members contributed to its rules, each user has the option to enable or disable them on an individual or category basis.

Why should I use Ansible Lint? 

The goal of Ansible Lint is to flag programming errors, bugs, stylistic errors and suspicious constructs and also ensure that content created by different people has Continue reading