Use Cases
Steampunk Spotter is your one-stop platform for optimizing and securing your Ansible Playbooks, offering a range of use cases to solve all your automation challenges.
Follow Best Practices
Easily follow and enforce established best practices in Ansible automation, ensuring your playbooks are well-structured, reliable, secure, maintainable, and scalable.
Write clean, efficient, and maintainable playbooks
Spotter identifies areas for improvement and suggests best practices for structure, readability, and scalability.
Enforce consistency
Easily follow and enforce standardized configurations across your infrastructure, reducing errors and ensuring smooth automation.
Catch errors early
Identify potential issues before they cause problems. Spotter scans for syntax errors, deprecated modules, and security vulnerabilities, keeping your automations reliable and secure.
Enhance playbook quality
Steampunk Spotter suggests improvements to enhance readability and make your playbooks easier to work with in the long run.
Enhance Security & Compliance
Achieve secure playbook execution with thorough checks, identifying flaws in Ansible modules and Python packages. Understand what will happen when you run the playbooks and follow security best practices to minimize security risks, downtime, and costs. Identify potential vulnerabilities in your playbooks before they can be exploited, and ensure your automation adheres to relevant security standards.
Prevent misconfigurations, security vulnerabilities, and policy violations
Proactively detect security weaknesses before they can be exploited.
Proactively evaluate runtime security threats
Identify potential issues that could arise during playbook execution.
Ensure compliance with security standards
Ensure your automation adheres to established security frameworks.
Add custom rules
Integrate your unique security policies to guarantee your automation aligns with your organization's specific needs.
Safeguard Ansible Automation Platform Workflows
Detect problems with playbooks before execution and fix unexpected errors during runtime by seamlessly integrating playbook validation into your existing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform workflows. By addressing potential issues upfront and dynamically adjusting execution based on runtime checks, you gain robust and reliable automation workflows with minimized risks of failures and disruptions.
Identify issues before execution
Catch and fix issues in playbooks before execution to reduce execution failures.
Get real-time feedback during runtime
Actively monitor playbook execution. Spotter provides immediate feedback or pauses execution to minimize the risk of failures and disruptions.
Streamline Workflows
Seamlessly integrate playbook validation into your existing AAP pipelines.
Enhance Security & Reliability
Proactively identify potential security vulnerabilities in your playbooks and increase overall system reliability.
Speed up Ansible Upgrades
Check if your playbooks are compatible with a specific Ansible version, identify issues you need to resolve, get advice on how to ease migrations, and upgrade playbooks in minutes instead of hours.
Future-proof your automation
Easily identify dependencies and integrate the latest modules and features recommended for newer Ansible versions.
Simplify version upgrades
Pinpoint compatibility issues, automatically fix fully qualified collection names and get actionable recommendations for playbook modifications.
Minimize downtime and disruptions
Spotter identifies changes like module renames, parameter adjustments, and deprecated features, ensuring a smooth transition.
Upgrade with confidence
Spotter detects deprecated modules, identifies name changes in collections and parameters, and highlights default value changes.
