Introduction

Git hook

Git hook scripts are useful for identifying simple issues before submission to code review. We run our hooks on every commit to automatically point out issues in code such as missing semicolons, trailing whitespace, and debug statements. By pointing these issues out before code review, this allows a code reviewer to focus on the architecture of a change while not wasting time with trivial style nitpicks.

Pre-commit project

Pre-commit is a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

Ansible lint

ansible-lint it’s a tool that checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved.

Install pre-commit

pip install pre-commit

Enabling ansible-lint within pre-commit

Create a pre-commit configuration file:

.pre-commit-config.yaml

---
repos:
- repo: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint.git
  rev: v4.2.0
  hooks:
    - id: ansible-lint
      files: \.(yaml|yml)$

Enable pre-commit for your git repository

$ pre-commit install
pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit

Testing pre-commit

$ pre-commit run --all-files
Ansible-lint.............................................................Passed

or just type:

$ git commit 

Great! right?

Mean’s my ansible project is fine and no errors found.

Now let’s see an output error sample:

git commit -m "testing hook" -a
Ansible-lint.............................................................Failed
- hook id: ansible-lint
- exit code: 2

[701] Role info should contain license
meta/main.yml:2
{'meta/main.yml': {'skipped_rules': [], '__file__': u'/Users/medeiros/src/github/eduardolmedeiros/ansible-dummy-role/meta/main.yml', u'dependencies': [], u'galaxy_info': {u'description': u'dummie ansible role', u'author': u'Eduardo Medeiros', u'company': u'emedeiros.me', u'galaxy_tags': [], '__line__': 3, u'platforms': [{'__file__': u'/Users/medeiros/src/github/eduardolmedeiros/ansible-dummy-role/meta/main.yml', u'name': u'EL', '__line__': 32, u'versions': [7, 8]}], '__file__': u'/Users/medeiros/src/github/eduardolmedeiros/ansible-dummy-role/meta/main.yml', u'min_ansible_version': 2.9}, '__line__': 2}}

Well. That’s all. Using pre-commit you can avoid some broken codes at production and at the same time making your teammates happy.

Cheers!