Enhancing Ansible Role Development with Best Practices with ansible-later

Streamlining Ansible Role Development with ansible-later

When it comes to developing Ansible roles in a collaborative environment, adhering to coding and best practices is essential. It ensures that roles are readable, maintainable, and minimizes troubleshooting time. ansible-later is a valuable tool designed to serve as a best practice scanner and linting tool for Ansible resources.

What is ansible-later?

ansible-later focuses on providing a fast and user-friendly linting experience for Ansible roles. While it may not offer the depth of analysis provided by some other tools like ansible-lint, it serves as an excellent choice for quickly identifying and enforcing best practices within your Ansible codebase.

Installation

To get started with ansible-later, ensure that Ansible is installed on your system. You can install ansible-later using pip with one of the optional dependency groups – either ansible or ansible-core:

# Install for the current user
pip install ansible-later[ansible] --user  # or ansible-later[ansible-core]

# Install system-wide
sudo pip install ansible-later[ansible]  # or…