Ansible-lint

ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved. As a community-backed project ansible-lint supports only the last two major versions of Ansible.

Visit the Ansible Lint docs site

Using ansible-lint as a GitHub Action

This action allows you to run ansible-lint on your codebase without having to install it yourself.

# .github/workflows/ansible-lint.yml
name: ansible-lint
on:
  pull_request:
    branches: ["main", "stable", "release/v*"]
jobs:
  build:
    name: Ansible Lint # Naming the build is important to use it as a status check
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Run ansible-lint
        uses: ansible/ansible-lint@main
        # optional (see below):
        with:
          args: ""
          setup_python: "true"
          working_directory: ""
          requirements_file: ""

All the arguments are optional and most users should not need them:

• args: Arguments to be passed to ansible-lint command.
• setup_python: If python should be installed. Default is true.
• working_directory: The directory where to run ansible-lint from. Default is github.workspace. That might be needed if you want to lint only a subset of your repository.
• requirements_file: Path to the requirements.yml file to install role and collection dependencies.

For more details, see ansible-lint-action.

Communication

Refer to the Talk to us section of the Contributing guide to find out how to get in touch with us.

You can also find more information in the Ansible communication guide.

Contributing

Please read Contribution guidelines if you wish to contribute.

Code of Conduct

Please see the Ansible Community Code of Conduct.

Licensing

The ansible-lint project is distributed as GPLv3 due to use of GPLv3 runtime dependencies, like ansible and yamllint.

For historical reasons, its own code-base remains licensed under a more liberal MIT license and any contributions made are accepted as being made under original MIT license.

Authors

ansible-lint was created by Will Thames and is now maintained as part of the Ansible by Red Hat project.