Posts tagged lint
Fix an Ansible-lint key-order violation
- 25 February 2023
Ansible allows for structured configurations on how to deploy applications and servers, but also for repetitive tasks. All these actions are defined in YAML files that rely on indentation and this is where Ansible can act in a way that isn’t expected. With yamllint most formatting and layout issues can be found, but with ansible-lint also common mistakes for Ansible can be detected.
As ansible-lint is a step in the CI-workflow a dependency upgrade started a CI-workflow to scan all Ansible Playbooks to be scanned with the latest version of Ansible-lint and found a violation that must be resolved before the pull request can be successfully merged. Running Ansible-lint after checking out the code the error shown below was found and indicates that the order of the keys in YAML isn’t in the correct order.