How To Install ansible-lint on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-lint on CentOS 7. ansible-lint is Best practices checker for Ansible

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-lint on CentOS 7.

What is ansible-lint

Checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved

We can use yum or dnf to install ansible-lint on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ansible-lint.

Install ansible-lint on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ansible-lint using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ansible-lint

Install ansible-lint on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ansible-lint using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ansible-lint

How To Uninstall ansible-lint on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ansible-lint package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ansible-lint

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-lint on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.