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

To use the action simply create an ansible-lint.yml (or choose custom *.yml name) in the .github/workflows/ directory.

For example:

name: ansible-lint
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  build:
    name: Ansible Lint # Naming the build is important to use it as a status check
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      # Important: This sets up your GITHUB_WORKSPACE environment variable
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0 # needed for progressive mode to work

      - name: Run ansible-lint
        # replace `main` with any valid ref, or tags like `v6`
        uses: ansible/ansible-lint-action@main
        # optional:
        # with:
        #   path: "playbooks/"  # <-- only one value is allowed

Due to limitations on how GitHub Actions are processing arguments, we do not plan to provide extra options. You will have to make use of ansible-lint own configuration file for altering its behavior.

If you still want custom arguments, you can still fork the action and modify its action.yml file.

TIP: N.B. Use ansible/ansible-lint-action@v6 or any other valid tag, or branch, or commit SHA to pin the action to use a specific version.

Alternatively, you can run the ansible lint only on certain branches:

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - stable
      - release/v*

or on various events

The Dockerfile and associated scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT.

The initial GitHub action has been created by Stefan Stölzle at stoe/actions.