ansible-later
Toggle Dark/Light/Auto mode Toggle Dark/Light/Auto mode Toggle Dark/Light/Auto mode Back to homepage
Edit page

Included rules

Reviews are useless without some rules to check against. ansible-later comes with a set of built-in checks, which are explained in the following table.

Rule ID Description Parameter
CheckYamlEmptyLines YML101 YAML should not contain unnecessarily empty lines. {max: 1, max-start: 0, max-end: 1}
CheckYamlIndent YML102 YAML should be correctly indented. {spaces: 2, check-multi-line-strings: false, indent-sequences: true}
CheckYamlHyphens YML103 YAML should use consistent number of spaces after hyphens (-). {max-spaces-after: 1}
CheckYamlDocumentStart YML104 YAML should contain document start marker. {document-start: {present: true}}
CheckYamlColons YML105 YAML should use consistent number of spaces around colons. {colons: {max-spaces-before: 0, max-spaces-after: 1}}
CheckYamlFile YML106 Roles file should be in YAML format.
CheckYamlHasContent YML107 Files should contain useful content.
CheckNativeYaml YML108 Use YAML format for tasks and handlers rather than key=value. {native-yaml: {exclude: []}}
CheckYamlDocumentEnd YML109 YAML should contain document end marker. {document-end: {present: true}}
CheckYamlOctalValues YML110 YAML should not use forbidden implicit or explicit octal value. {octal-values: {forbid-implicit-octal: true, forbid-explicit-octal: true}}
CheckTaskSeparation ANS101 Single tasks should be separated by an empty line.
CheckMetaMain ANS102 Meta file should contain a basic subset of parameters. author, description, min_ansible_version, platforms, dependencies
CheckUniqueNamedTask ANS103 Tasks and handlers must be uniquely named within a file.
CheckBraces ANS104 YAML should use consistent number of spaces around variables. {double-braces: max-spaces-inside: 1, min-spaces-inside: 1}
CheckScmInSrc ANS105 Use SCM key rather than src: scm+url in requirements file.
CheckNamedTask ANS106 Tasks and handlers must be named. {named-task: {exclude: [meta, debug, block, include_*, import_*]}}
CheckNameFormat ANS107 Name of tasks and handlers must be formatted. formats: first letter capital
CheckCommandInsteadofModule ANS108 Commands should not be used in place of modules.
CheckInstallUseLatest ANS109 Package managers should not install with state=latest.
CheckShellInsteadCommand ANS110 Use Shell only when piping, redirecting or chaining commands.
CheckCommandHasChanges ANS111 Commands should be idempotent and only used with some checks.
CheckCompareToEmptyString ANS112 Don’t compare to "" - use when: var or when: not var.
CheckCompareToLiteralBool ANS113 Don’t compare to True/False - use when: var or when: not var.
CheckLiteralBoolFormat ANS114 Literal bools should be consistent. {literal-bools: [True, False, yes, no]}
CheckBecomeUser ANS115 Become should be combined with become_user.
CheckFilterSeparation ANS116 Jinja2 filters should be separated with spaces.
CheckCommandInsteadOfArgument ANS117 Commands should not be used in place of module arguments.
CheckFilePermissionMissing ANS118 File permissions unset or incorrect.
CheckFilePermissionOctal ANS119 Octal file permissions must contain leading zero or be a string.
CheckGitHasVersion ANS120 Git checkouts should use explicit version.
CheckMetaChangeFromDefault ANS121 Roles meta/main.yml default values should be changed.
CheckWhenFormat ANS122 Don’t use Jinja2 in when.
CheckNestedJinja ANS123 Don’t use nested Jinja2 pattern.
CheckLocalAction ANS124 Don’t use local_action.
CheckRelativeRolePaths ANS125 Don’t use a relative path in a role.
CheckChangedInWhen ANS126 Use handlers instead of when: changed.
CheckChangedInWhen ANS127 Deprecated bare variables in loops must not be used.
CheckFQCNBuiltin ANS128 Module actions should use full qualified collection names.
CheckFQCNBuiltin ANS129 Check optimized playbook/tasks key order.
CheckDeprecated ANS999 Deprecated features of ansible-later should not be used.