ansible-lint

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

• macOS: brew install ansible-lint
• Ubuntu: apt install ansible-lint

ansible-lint your-playbook.yml
We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors we got from each:
JSON: Expecting value: line 2 column 1 (char 1)

Syntax Error while loading YAML.
  mapping values are not allowed in this context

The error appears to be in '/home/ubuntu/your-playbook.yml': line 9, column 34, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

    - name: Add a user to a password file and ensure permissions are set
       community.general.htpasswd:
                                 ^ here

Related commands

• go fmt
• terraform fmt
• AWS CloudFormation Linter

See also

• Ansible: modules, plugins, Playbooks (examples) ansible-playbook, ansible-vault, ansible-inventory, ansible-config, Ansible Tower, Ansible Galaxy (Roles) (ansible-galaxy), ansible-cmdb, gather facts, ansible.cfg, Ansible Molecule, Ansible collections, register, template, --ask-pass, --ask-become-pass, remote_user:, /etc/ansible/hosts, ansible-doc, ansible-lint, .ansible/, --forks, --start-at-task, changelog, inventory, Notify:, ansible HOSTNAME -m ping, gathering, /usr/bin/ansible, ansible -m ping, ansible.builtin, hosts: (Ansible), set fact:, when:, blockinfile:, become method:, include:, git:, AWX, ansible --help, Tags, Ansible variables, versions
• Lint, pylint, eslint, tflint, cfn-lint, autopep8, lint-staged, autopep8 --help, GitLab CI lint, Code climate, Black, hadolint, KubeLinter, hlint, ansible-lint