Lint Ansible Playbooks And Roles Before Automation Breaks In Prod With Ansible Lint

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name: "Lint Ansible playbooks and roles before automation breaks in prod with ansible-lint"
slug: "lint-ansible-playbooks-and-roles-before-automation-breaks-in-prod-with-ansible-lint"
description: "Run ansible-lint against playbooks, roles, and collections so risky patterns and common mistakes are caught before automation is merged or executed."
github_stars: 3856
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint"
author: "Ansible community"
publisher_type: "open_source"
category: "Code Quality & Review"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "ansible/ansible-lint"
  github_stars: 3856
---

# Lint Ansible playbooks and roles before automation breaks in prod with ansible-lint

Run ansible-lint against playbooks, roles, and collections so risky patterns and common mistakes are caught before automation is merged or executed.

## Prerequisites

Python, Ansible, ansible-lint

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- setup_python: If python should be installed. Default is true.
- python_version: The version of python to install. Default is 3.14.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- This action allows you to run ansible-lint on your codebase without having to
- yaml
- # .github/workflows/ansible-lint.yml

- Source: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible-lint/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/lint/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/lint-ansible-playbooks-and-roles-before-automation-breaks-in-prod-with-ansible-lint/)