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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
Enhance your automation with improved playbooks that guarantee reliable execution, based on our extensive automation knowledge. Reduce development and test time by identifying potential vulnerabilities and eliminate errors by removing manual intervention.
Achieve secure playbook execution
Understand what will happen when you run the playbooks to minimize security risks, downtime, and costs. Increase your confidence and certainty while following security best practices on automation and ensure reliable execution.
’’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 existing playbooks are compatible with the latest Ansible version and get recommendations on potential issues and caveats while updating your environment. Prevent downtime and facilitate migrations across different versions.
Beyond simple syntax checks
By understanding the context of Ansible Playbooks and Collections, Spotter knows what you want to achieve with your playbook and helps you get there faster.
Features
Use Spotter to check:
Best practices
Structure your playbooks for readability, collaboration and ease of use, and avoid common playbook anti-patterns.
Errors
Rely on the assistant that will guide you through hidden obstacles causing hard-to-catch and time-consuming errors.
Modules
Identify name changes and redirects, check for fully qualified names, and ensure you are using only certified and approved modules.
Parameters
Make sure you are using correct parameters, considering their relationships, and quickly identify invalid configurations.
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 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 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 Spotter to:
identify potential vulnerabilities,
receive quality reports and recommendations for improvements,
achieve reliable execution of automation.
Why we made Spotter
’’Having written countless playbooks and collections, we have unique experience in both sides of the Ansible story and we are very familiar with the challenges Ansible users face. We have incorporated this extensive know-how in the Steampunk Spotter to support you on your automation journey and help you automate with confidence.’’
Gregor Berginc, CEO & Head of XLAB Steampunk, XLAB
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