PLAYBOOK SCANNING
Scan, fix, and improve your Ansible Playbooks instantly
Spotter scans your playbooks to catch errors early, enforce best practices, and guide you toward safer automation.
- 200+ checks available
- Standardize Ansible Playbooks
- Detect security issues early
- Upgrade-ready playbooks
- Ansible content scanAnalyze tasks, playbooks, roles, and collections to catch errors, improve quality, and prevent misconfigurations.
- Best-practice enforcementAutomatically detect deviations from recommended Ansible and automation standards before they reach production.
- Actionable remediation guidanceGet clear, practical suggestions on how to fix issues, not just a list of what’s wrong.
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KEY BENEFITS
Deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable playbooks
Catch hard-to-spot errors
Spotter identifies time-consuming issues that could otherwise go unnoticed, helping prevent automation failures and misconfigurations before they happen.
Enforce best practices and compliance
Automatically verify playbooks against automation best practices, certified modules, and fully qualified names to ensure reliability, security, and organizational compliance.
Simplify playbook maintenance
Spotter recommends improvements, detects outdated names or redirects, and even applies fixes automatically, making your playbooks easier to read, maintain, and scale.
SCAN
Playbook Scanning Tailored to Your Needs
Spotter’s Playbook Scanning checks every task, role, and module to keep your automation reliable, secure, and efficient. Use preset or custom scan profiles for routine maintenance, in-depth inspections, or security-focused checks.
Default profile | Everyday Checks
Full profile | In-Depth Analysis
Security profile | Maximum Protection
CHECK
Comprehensive Check Coverage
Spotter provides a comprehensive suite of checks to ensure your playbooks are reliable, secure, and aligned with best practices. Each check type focuses on a specific aspect of playbook quality, helping teams catch errors early, enforce standards, and maintain compliance.
Security checks
Identify security misconfigurations and ensure compliance with best practices. Security checks validate sensitive information, protect secrets, and proactively assess runtime security risks.
Upgrade Checks
Ensure your playbooks are compatible with the latest versions of Ansible and Ansible Collections. Upgrade checks help maintain supportability, simplify migrations, and keep your automation up to date.
Validation checks
Verify that modules, parameters, and parameter values are correct and used appropriately. Validation checks prevent misconfigurations and reduce errors during playbook execution.
Best Practice Checks
Structure your playbooks for readability, collaboration, and maintainability. These checks help teams adhere to consistent standards, making automation easier to understand and share.
Custom checks
Define your own rules and policies to meet organizational, industry, or regulatory requirements. Custom checks provide flexibility to enforce internal standards and strengthen governance.
IMPROVE
Automatically rewrite broken playbooks
Fix errors, update deprecated modules, and align playbooks with best practices. Reduce manual rework and keep your automation running smoothly as environments evolve.
- Rewrite Ansible content fast with automatic suggestions
OPTIMIZE
Check Management
Managing hundreds of checks across automation pipelines can be overwhelming. Spotter’s Check Management ensures the right validations run at the right time, keeping systems efficient, compliant, and focused.
Intelligent Check Control
Enforce Critical Checks
Ensure that essential validations always run to maintain reliability and compliance.
Skip Non-Essential Checks
Reduce noise and focus on what actually matters for your playbooks and infrastructure.
Real-Time Check Flow Management
Dynamically control which checks run during scans, keeping pipelines efficient and responsive.
UPGRADE AND MIGRATION
8x
faster migration
The bank needed to migrate thousands of Ansible Playbooks from a legacy platform to AAP 2.4 while ensuring
compatibility with Ansible 2.15. Spotter automated the majority of fixes, making the migration much faster
and
significantly reducing manual effort. This approach simplified the process and demonstrated the impact of
automation on large-scale infrastructure projects.
PLAYBOOK SECURITY
"Spotter’s Playbook Scanning immediately flagged hard-coded secrets in our automation. These insights
helped us
quickly address security risks and ensure our playbooks are safe and compliant,
without hours of manual review."
DevOps Engineer,
Fortune 500 company
Fortune 500 company
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Flexible Ansible Playbook Scanning with Steampunk Spotter
Tailored scanning for your Ansible Playbooks.
How to Automatically fix Ansible Content with Steampunk Spotter
Spotter can automatically fix specific errors in your Ansible Playbooks.
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FAQ
What does Spotter’s Playbook Scanning do?
Spotter scans every task, role, and module in your playbooks to identify errors, enforce best practices, and prevent misconfigurations, making your automation more reliable and easier to maintain.
Can Spotter check my Ansible content like tasks, roles, and collections?
Yes. Spotter performs in-depth Ansible content scans to ensure all playbooks, roles, tasks, and collections meet quality and compliance standards.
How does Spotter help with security?
Spotter performs security checks that detect misconfigurations, validate secrets, and assess runtime security risks to ensure your automation is safe and compliant. For Enterprise plan customers, Spotter also includes additional security and compliance tools such as SBOM generation, CVE analysis, detailed security reports, and supply chain management features.
Can I scan public Git repositories?
Yes. Spotter can scan public Git resources to verify they are secure, well-maintained, and dependable for your automation workflows.
Can Spotter automatically fix issues in my playbooks?
Yes, Spotter provides automatic suggestions and can rewrite broken or outdated playbooks, replacing deprecated modules and aligning content with modern best practices.
Can I create custom checks for my organization?
Sure. Spotter allows you to define custom rules and policies to enforce internal standards, industry regulations, or organizational governance requirements.
