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Steampunk Spotter

Trustable Automation

Ansible Playbook Platform that scans, analyzes, enhances, and provides insights for your playbooks.

Spotter reduce risks speed up automation

82% reduction

in playbook errors

70% decrease

in code reviews

4x faster

code improvements

350% ROI

in one year

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Reduce risks and speed up automation

Optimize your automation with improved playbooks that guarantee reliable execution. Create and maintain Ansible Playbooks with ease while ensuring they are always up-to-date and secure.

  • identify hard-to-catch and time-consuming errors
  • improve quality, reliability and security of playbooks
  • reduce development and test time
  • follow automation best practices
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Ansible automation platform

Supports Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Ansible versions

Checks all Ansible versions from 2.0 to 2.17

Spotter windows compatible

Windows compatible

What users say about Spotter

"Spotter transforms our automation process by identifying and mitigating potential issues before execution, reducing errors, and boosting productivity. It's not just a tool – it's a catalyst for revolutionizing how we manage and perceive automation."

Miguel Esteban,

CEO, Computer Space

"Spotter shines when it comes to writing new playbooks, following best practices and fixing errors in existing playbooks automatically. All in all, it saves so much time. It’s just easy as cake."

Andreas Hering,

System Engineer, Deutsche Telekom MMS

"Spotter can help my customers go from Ansible 2.9 to 2.13/14. It can help them find FQCN for modules, as they are having a hard time finding them, and can also help with any changed parameters. Spotter is easy to use and expand upon."

Jason,

Technical Account Manager

"Spotter found some things that other tools didn't, and I'm definitely adding it to my CI/CD pipeline."

Daniel Schier,

Consultant and DevOps Engineer

"Spotter is a game-changing tool that will revolutionize the way you manage your Ansible Playbooks. It's like having a personal playbook advisor!"

Sam,

Pythoholic

"Linter checks and corrections were a time-consuming job for our existing assets. We used Spotter to set up the development standards and best practices. I love that it shows errors that other available linters can't find. Spotter is awesome!"

Sagar Vispute,

Automation Developer

"Spotter is a great tool for all Ansible Playbook users. What I like most is that it finds version mismatches."

Sai Kartheek Dasari,

Senior Devops Engineer

"Spotter allows me to write perfect Ansible code without missing all the necessary arguments and delivers on the promise of helping with Ansible version upgrades."

Stéphane Robert,

DevOps Consultant

"Spotter is a very good addition to existing tools. Especially the tips and hints to migrate from older Ansible versions to current versions and the function to fix found errors are great!"

Sebastian,

System Engineer

"Spotter has allowed me to easily convert an Ansible role and many playbooks to be able to run on the latest Ansible versions. I'm excited to share this tool with my team and my company."

Matt,

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

"Ansible security scanning, assisted playbook writing, and custom policies functionalities of Steampunk Spotter greatly simplify and fast track my Ansible development experience."

Ioannis M.,

Solutions Architect

"Spotter transforms our automation process by identifying and mitigating potential issues before execution, reducing errors, and boosting productivity. It's not just a tool – it's a catalyst for revolutionizing how we manage and perceive automation."

Miguel Esteban,

CEO, Computer Space

"Spotter shines when it comes to writing new playbooks, following best practices and fixing errors in existing playbooks automatically. All in all, it saves so much time. It’s just easy as cake."

Andreas Hering,

System Engineer, Deutsche Telekom MMS

"Spotter can help my customers go from Ansible 2.9 to 2.13/14. It can help them find FQCN for modules, as they are having a hard time finding them, and can also help with any changed parameters. Spotter is easy to use and expand upon."

Jason,

Technical Account Manager

"Spotter found some things that other tools didn't, and I'm definitely adding it to my CI/CD pipeline."

Daniel Schier,

Consultant and DevOps Engineer

"Spotter is a game-changing tool that will revolutionize the way you manage your Ansible Playbooks. It's like having a personal playbook advisor!"

Sam,

Pythoholic

"Linter checks and corrections were a time-consuming job for our existing assets. We used Spotter to set up the development standards and best practices. I love that it shows errors that other available linters can't find. Spotter is awesome!"

Sagar Vispute,

Automation Developer

"Spotter is a great tool for all Ansible Playbook users. What I like most is that it finds version mismatches."

Sai Kartheek Dasari,

Senior Devops Engineer

"Spotter allows me to write perfect Ansible code without missing all the necessary arguments and delivers on the promise of helping with Ansible version upgrades."

Stéphane Robert,

DevOps Consultant

"Spotter is a very good addition to existing tools. Especially the tips and hints to migrate from older Ansible versions to current versions and the function to fix found errors are great!"

Sebastian,

System Engineer

"Spotter has allowed me to easily convert an Ansible role and many playbooks to be able to run on the latest Ansible versions. I'm excited to share this tool with my team and my company."

Matt,

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

"Ansible security scanning, assisted playbook writing, and custom policies functionalities of Steampunk Spotter greatly simplify and fast track my Ansible development experience."

Ioannis M.,

Solutions Architect

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Achieve secure playbook execution

Add an extra layer of security. Understand what will happen when you run the playbooks and follow security best practices to minimize security risks, downtime, and costs.

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Optimize Red Hat Ansible Automation Workflows

Detect problems with playbooks before execution and fix unexpected errors during runtime to achieve robust and reliable automation workflows with minimized risks of failures and disruptions.

Easily upgrade to the latest Ansible version

Check if your playbooks are compatible with a specific Ansible version, identify issues you need to resolve, get advice on how to ease migrations, and upgrade playbooks in minutes instead of hours.

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Gain insights for your scans

Analyze scan data, spot trends, monitor progress, and create custom reports with the intuitive reporting feature. Focus on delivering results and make data-driven decisions.

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"It's like having a personal playbook advisor, your own writing and managing assistant. Spotter is your one-stop solution."
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"Ansible security scanning, assisted playbook writing, and custom policies functionalities of Steampunk Spotter greatly simplify and fast track my Ansible development experience."
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"A must have if you use Ansible."
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Computer Space benefits greatly from Spotter. You could too.

82% reduction

in Ansible Playbook errors

100s of hours saved

in playbook optimization

70% productivity increase

in Automation Office

Spotter works where you work

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Scan playbooks from command line

Simply install the steampunk-spotter CLI tool as a Python package.

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Scan Git repositories from web

Use Spotter app to check the quality of public Git repositories.

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Scan from CI/CD
 

Integrate Spotter with GitHub Actions and GitLab to scan content within CI/CD workflows.

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Scan from your favorite code editor

Analyze and get recommendations for your playbooks directly in Visual Studio Code.

  • Scan playbooks from CLI
  • Scan Git repositories from web
  • Scan in GitHub Actions
  • Scan in GitLab
  • Scan in Visual Studio Code

Who is it for?

Development

As a Playbook Developer, you come across different challenges. Documentation is lacking, there's no clear guidance on what's approved, and it's hard to keep up with what's new and best practices.

Use the Spotter to:

  • verify playbook templates or examples,
  • check Ansible core and Collection versions compatibility,
  • understand the implications of Ansible upgrades.

Quality Assurance

As a Quality Assurance Manager, you often wonder what the playbook will really do, especially when there's no documentation available. Will there be a rollback? Will it break something in production?

Use the Spotter to:

  • understand what will happen when you run the playbook,
  • run QA automations without errors,
  • understand best practices and what-if scenarios for your tests.

Operations

As an Operations Manager, you want to anticipate potential issues, but how to do that if you don't know what will happen in case of errors in the playbooks? Or what will happen to them when a new Ansible version pops up?

Use the Spotter to:

  • identify potential vulnerabilities,
  • receive quality reports and recommendations for improvements,
  • achieve reliable execution of automation.

Security

As IT's infrastructure continues to evolve and become more complex, it's nearly impossible for security specialists to keep it secure at all times without the help of reliable tools.

Use the Spotter to:

  • prevent misconfigurations and security breaches,
  • ensure corporate standards of compliance,
  • achieve secure execution of automation.
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Test drive Steampunk Spotter on-premise to experience its full power and enterprise features in your own infrastructure.

  • Personalized Demo
  • 1 Week of Testing
  • Full Support
  • Report of Cost & Time Savings
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