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November 4, 2026
Shift-left security for Terraform: checking configurations and plans in CI/CD
Code review alone can't govern Terraform. Learn how to check Terraform code and plans against your policies in CI/CD, before …
January 24, 2023
Is Ansible Lint enough? How to build on it for production-ready playbooks
Already using Ansible Lint? Here’s how to build on it with version, policy, and security checks before your playbooks reach …
November 10, 2022
Keeping your secrets out of Ansible Playbooks
Every good web service needs a good authentication layer. AWS uses IAM to manage users, one of which is your development user …
November 9, 2022
Steampunk Spotter: Analyze Ansible Playbooks and Enhance Automation
Don't you wish you had a little helper by your side to spot elusive errors when writing Ansible Playbooks? Or anticipate potential …
November 3, 2022
Steampunk Spotter: What's new in 1.1?
We're constantly improving Steampunk Spotter by adding new checks that enhance stability, reliability, and security of your …
September 7, 2022
Dealing with Ansible upgrades in an intelligent way
If you are reading this, you are no stranger to the Ansible update and upgrade process. The fact that Ansible is constantly being …
August 30, 2022
Say hello to Steampunk Spotter: Assisted Automation Writing Tool
There hasn’t been much buzz around our Ansible Playbook Quality Scanner lately. But with a good reason. Our team has been putting …
July 13, 2022
Ansible Playbook Best Practices: How to Write High-Quality Playbooks
Ansible playbook best practices with YAML examples: project structure, idempotency, variables, testing, security and AI-generated …
January 12, 2022
Avoiding common mistakes in your Ansible Playbooks
Ansible Collections gave us much more control over the content we use when building our Ansible Playbooks. But they also brought …
November 11, 2021
Using Steampunk Scanner's Command Line Interface (CLI)
Almost exactly five months ago, we unveiled the first version of Steampunk Scanner . To keep things simple, we only offered an …
June 17, 2021
Writing reliable Ansible Playbooks
We often talk about techniques and tools that help developers write high-quality Ansible content (modules and plugins). Of course, …
