Steampunk Spotter
Trusted Ansible and Terraform Scripts for Reliable Automation
Scan for security issues, validate best practices, and guide upgrades with all-in-one platform.
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What Spotter is
Steampunk Spotter is a platform for improving your Terraform Plans and Ansible Playbook quality, security, and performance. It helps teams trust every script run by scanning issues, validating best practices, and guiding upgrades — all in one place.
Improve scripts quality and reliability
Enhance security & compliance
Speed up upgrades and migrations
Standardize automation practices
What’s new in Spotter
Enhanced Security Scanning
Continuously reviews Ansible Playbooks and Terraform Plans to identify risks, misconfigurations,
and policy violations before deployment, helping teams prevent errors and ensure compliance
across their infrastructure.
CIS Benchmark Validation
Stay compliant with prebuilt REGO policy libraries built for major CIS Benchmarks. Available for:
CIS Cisco NEW!
CIS RHEL 10 NEW!
CIS RHEL 9
CIS RHEL 8
CIS Azure
CIS Aws
CIS Windows
Collections-based Validation
Automatically identify misconfiguration risks in Ansible collections to ensure secure collection
usage and adherence to best practices.
AI Policy Generator
Generate new policies from plain language descriptions with AI. Spotter’s interface lets users
create REGO policies from plain language descriptions, making policy development faster, and more
accessible and enables efficient governance automation based on specific requirements and needs..
Ansible Core 2.20
Upgrade to the newest version - we now support Ansible Core 2.20.
Continuously reviews Ansible Playbooks and Terraform Plans to identify risks, misconfigurations,
and policy violations before deployment, helping teams prevent errors and ensure compliance
across their infrastructure.
Stay compliant with prebuilt REGO policy libraries built for major CIS Benchmarks. Available
for:
CIS Cisco NEW!
CIS RHEL 10 NEW!
CIS RHEL 9
CIS RHEL 8
CIS Azure
CIS Aws
CIS Windows
Automatically identify misconfiguration risks in Ansible collections to ensure secure collection
usage and adherence to best practices.
Generate new policies from plain language descriptions with AI. Spotter’s interface lets users
create REGO policies from plain language descriptions, making policy development faster, and more
accessible and enables efficient governance automation based on specific requirements and needs.
Upgrade to the newest version - we now support Ansible Core 2.20.
Expanded Functionality for Enterprises
SBOM, CVE and Security Collection Reports
Get visibility into the dependencies that playbooks and collections rely on.
Allow teams to make informed decisions about whether it’s safe to use.
Custom Policies
Seamlessly integrate your unique internal policies, regulatory standards, and compliance
requirements into the scanning process.
AVAILABLE FOR ANSIBLE AND TERRAFORM
Supply Chain Management
Proactively control which dependencies are used in your Ansible Playbooks, reducing risk, improving
reliability, and ensuring compliance.
AVAILABLE FOR ANSIBLE AND TERRAFORM
AAP Integration
Ensure Ansible Playbooks are error-free and secure before execution on Red Hat
Ansible Automation Platform, and handle runtime errors for reliable automation.
LDAP Integration
Spotter’s LDAP integration with custom user mapping and SSO lets you secure and manage thousands of
Ansible projects in under 30 minutes.
Analytics and Reporting
Get one clear view of your entire Ansible and Terraform automation landscape.
Easily download reports and share them with your team.
Use-cases
SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE
Improve security and ensure compliance across your Ansible and Terraform scripts
Identify vulnerabilities, follow compliance best practices, and prevent security risks before they
impact your automation.
UPGRADE AND MIGRATION
Upgrade and migrate scripts in minutes instead of hours
Speed up your upgrades with automatic issue detection, seamless playbook rewrites, and insights you can
act on immediately.
SCRIPT STANDARDIZATION
Enable script standardization and bring order to your playbooks and plans
Achieve consistent scripts that follow best practices in Ansible and Terraform automation and ensure
your scripts are well-structured, secure, maintainable, and scalable.
SAFEGUARD ANSIBLE AUTOMATION PLATFORM WORKFLOWS
SAFEGUARD AAP WORKFLOWS
Optimize Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Workflows
Spotter integrates with AAP to validate playbooks in the pipeline, ensuring only secure automation
reaches production.
How SWIFT Governs Ansible at Enterprise Scale
SWIFT — the financial messaging backbone connecting 11,000+ institutions across 200+ countries — chose Steampunk Spotter to govern Ansible automation across thousands of playbooks at enterprise scale. Based on their initial rollout, the projected impact includes:
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75-85%
auto-fix rate by Spotter
~6,500
engineering hours to be saved
3-month
target for full migration
June 10-12 | Munich
Join us at AutoCon 5
Let’s talk automation! See how Steampunk Spotter, now supporting Ansible and Terraform, gives you a more unified way to manage and scale your automation. Skip the hallway chase and book a 1:1 meeting with our team to dive into your specific goals and use cases.
- Get a live demo of Spotter’s newest features across Ansible and Terraform.
- Bring your toughest automation challenges — we'll dig into it together.
- Hear how telcos and Fortune 100 enterprises use Spotter to ship network automation faster.
- Or just connect with people who genuinely love automation. 😉
Gregor Berginc
CEO
Uroš Raztresen
Technical Product Advisor
