You should have heard about SonarQube as a code scanning and code quality check tool. SonarQube doesn’t support Ansible by default. A plugin needs to be set up to scan Ansible playbooks or roles. In this article, you will learn on how to set up and use SonarQube on your Ansible (YAML) code for linting and code analysis. This article uses the community edition of SonarQube. 

What Is Ansible?

As explained in previous articles around Ansible: Ansible Beyond Automation and Automation Ansible AI, Ansible is a simple IT automation tool that helps you provision infrastructure, install software, and support application automation through advanced workflows.