Code Quality for Ansible

Problem to solve

Customers who store ansible files in GitLab cannot see how the quality of the code has changed for a change so cannot trust it will be as maintainable/readable as before.

Intended users

• Delaney (Development Team Lead)
• Sasha (Software Developer)
• Devon (DevOps Engineer)
• Sidney (Systems Administrator)
• Sam (Security Analyst)

Further details

Code Quality doesn't seem to support Ansible at the moment, but we have customers interested in this feature.

Proposal

Create an analyzer based on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-lint/, generating a code_quality report file. Like security reports, it should be possible to aggregate results from various analyzers, yet this is something to confirm,

Permissions and Security

N/A

Documentation

Update https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/code_quality.html with the list of supported languages

Testing

TODO

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

• Ansible projects supported and their code analyzed. Errors reported in the Merge Request widget.

What is the type of buyer?

GitLab Premium

Links / references

Prospect: https://gitlab.my.salesforce.com/0014M00001kGIR6?srPos=0&srKp=001