Ansible-Lint in Air-Gapped Environments: Offline Setup Guide

Learn how to configure and use Ansible-Lint offline in air-gapped environments by following these best practices and troubleshooting tips.

When managing infrastructure in air-gapped environments — where systems are isolated from the internet for security purposes — teams often encounter challenges related to software dependencies that require online access. One common tool that may pose issues in such setups is ansible-lint, which is used to enforce coding standards for Ansible playbooks.

In this article, we’ll explore how ansible-lint operates in air-gapped environments, the errors you might encounter, and solutions to help it work smoothly offline.

Understanding Ansible-Lint and Galaxy Dependencies

ansible-lint is a powerful tool for validating and enforcing standards across Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections. However, ansible-lint often requires access to collections or roles hosted on Ansible Galaxy (galaxy.ansible.com), the public repository for sharing Ansible content. In an air-gapped environment, calls to Galaxy will fail, resulting in errors and incomplete checks.

When trying to use ansible-lint in such an environment, you may encounter errors like: