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.

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Improve scripts quality and reliability
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Enhance security & compliance
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Speed up upgrades and migrations
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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.
Security scanning
Cis benchmark validation
Collections based validation
AI policy generator
Ansible core 2.0

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.
Security scanning

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
Cis benchmark validation

Automatically identify misconfiguration risks in Ansible collections to ensure secure collection usage and adherence to best practices.
Collections based validation

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.
AI policy generator

Upgrade to the newest version - we now support Ansible Core 2.20.
Ansible core 2.0

Expanded Functionality for Enterprises

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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.
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Custom Policies
Seamlessly integrate your unique internal policies, regulatory standards, and compliance requirements into the scanning process.
AVAILABLE FOR ANSIBLE AND TERRAFORM
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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