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Ansible Playbook Scanning Tool that analyzes and offers recommendations for your playbooks.
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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
"Spotter has been instrumental in transforming our automation process. It helps identify and mitigate potential issues before execution, resulting in fewer errors and higher productivity. Spotter is more than just a tool — it’s a catalyst for evolving the way we manage and perceive automation."
Miguel Esteban, CEO, Computer Space
"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 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, and what I like most about Spotter 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. It's perfect for getting comprehensive code.’’
Stéphane Robert, DevOps Consultant
’’Spotter seems like a very good addition to existing tools like ansible-lint and ansible-test. Especially the tips and hints to migrate from older Ansible versions to current versions as well as 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. It clearly showed me all the changes I needed to make, and I'm excited to share this tool with my team and my company. Thanks so much for the great tool!’’
Matt, Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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.
Check all Ansible versions from 2.0 to 2.15
️Prevent downtime and simplify migrations across different versions.
Identify name changes and redirects in collections, modules and parameters and default value changes.
Detect deprecated modules and their parameters.
Check for fully qualified collection names.
- Prevent downtime and simplify migrations across different versions.
- Identify name changes and redirects in collections, modules and parameters and default value changes.
- Detect deprecated modules and their parameters.
- Check for fully qualified collection names.
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.
- prevent misconfigurations, security vulnerabilities or policy violations
- proactively evaluate runtime security threats and prevent security breaches
- ensure compliance with security standards
- include custom policies to ensure automation meets your specific security requirements
Define your custom rules and policies
Add your own rules and policies to ensure all playbooks meet your specific needs, requirements and use cases.
- ensure you follow organizational or industry-specific regulations, standards, or compliance requirements
- further specify playbook standards, allowed modules and collections
- define specific naming conventions and limit required values on specific modules and entities
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Spotter check types
Best practice checks
Structure your playbooks for readability, collaboration and ease of use.
Validation checks
Verify that modules, parameters, and parameter values within playbooks are correct and accurate.
Upgrade checks
Check if playbooks are compatible and supported with the latest versions of Ansible and Ansible Collections.
Custom checks
Customize rules and policies to meet specific organizational, industry and security requirements.
Security checks
Check for security misconfiguration within playbooks and assure compliance with security best practices.
Spotter check types
Best practice checks
Structure your playbooks for readability, collaboration and ease of use.
Validation checks
Verify that modules, parameters, and parameter values within playbooks are correct and accurate.
Upgrade checks
Check if playbooks are compatible and supported with the latest versions of Ansible and Ansible Collections.
Custom checks
Customize rules and policies to meet specific organizational, industry and security requirements.
Security checks
Check for security misconfiguration within playbooks and assure compliance with security best practices.
Save time with convenience features
Fix issues automatically
Rewrite your Ansible content with suggested changes in a flash.
Get instant help with module documentation
Suggestions are equipped with direct links to module documentation of a specific version.
Generate missing requirements files
Requirements.yml with all the collections you need for the installation is generated automatically.
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.
Spotter works where you work
Scan playbooks from command line
Simply install the steampunk-spotter CLI tool as a Python package.
Scan Git repositories from web
Use Spotter app to check the quality of public Git repositories.
Scan from CI/CD
Integrate Spotter with GitHub Actions and GitLab to scan content within CI/CD workflows.
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
Windows compatible
Spotter is fully compatible with Windows operating systems, allowing seamless integration with other Windows applications to help you streamline your workflow.
