Ansible-lint

ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved. As a community-backed project ansible-lint supports only the last two major versions of Ansible.

Visit the Ansible Lint docs site

Using ansible-lint as a GitHub Action

This action allows you to run ansible-lint on your codebase without having to install it yourself.

# .github/workflows/ansible-lint.yml
name: ansible-lint
on:
  pull_request:
    branches: ["main", "stable", "release/v*"]
jobs:
  build:
    name: Ansible Lint # Naming the build is important to use it as a status check
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
      - name: Run ansible-lint
        uses: ansible/ansible-lint@main # or vX.X.X version
        # optional (see below):
        with:
          args: ""
          gh_action_ref: "<version - e.g. `v25.5.0`>" # Not recommended for non-composite action use
          setup_python: "true"
          python_version: "3.14"
          working_directory: ""
          requirements_file: ""

By default, the workflow uses ansible-lint installed from main. For production or stable workflows, it is recommended to specify a particular release tag (in format v.X.X.X).

All the arguments are optional:

• args: Arguments to be passed to ansible-lint command.
• gh_action_ref: The git branch, tag, or commit to use for ansible-lint. Not recommended for standard use - only use with composite actions where GH_ACTION_REF is set to the parent action version.
• requirements_file: Path to the requirements.yml file to install role and collection dependencies.
• setup_python: If python should be installed. Default is true.
• python_version: The version of python to install. Default is 3.14.
• working_directory: The directory where to run ansible-lint from. Default is github.workspace. Needed if you want to lint only a subset of your repository.

For more details, see ansible-lint-action.

Communication

Refer to the Talk to us section of the Contributing guide to find out how to get in touch with us.

You can also find more information in the Ansible communication guide.

Contributing

Please read Contribution guidelines if you wish to contribute.

Code of Conduct

Please see the Ansible Community Code of Conduct.

Licensing

The ansible-lint project is distributed as GPLv3 due to use of GPLv3 runtime dependencies, like ansible and yamllint.

For historical reasons, its own code-base remains licensed under a more liberal MIT license and any contributions made are accepted as being made under original MIT license.

Authors

ansible-lint was created by Will Thames and is now maintained as part of the Ansible by Red Hat project.