Validate Ansible inventory and variables before execution with Knee CLI. The CLI performs preflight checks on hosts, groups, and vars, merges precedence correctly, and flags missing or unsafe values. Teams see clear errors and remediation tips, so playbooks run clean in CI CD and production. Reduce failed runs and speed approvals with policy guardrails and human-readable reports.
Misconfigured inventories and undefined vars break deployments. Duplicate hosts, bad group inheritance, wrong data types, or missing secrets cause failed runs and emergency rollbacks. Without automated inventory validation and vars validation, approvals stall, drift grows, and audits lack a trusted record of what changed and why.
Knee CLI parses inventory files, checks host and group membership, and validates required keys, types, and ranges for variables. It evaluates group var precedence, detects unsafe defaults, and verifies secrets and environment matrices. The CLI produces a preflight report with errors, warnings, and fix suggestions, then gates CI CD until issues are resolved. Results export to PR comments, tickets, or artifacts for a clean audit trail.
Knee (CLI for Ansible Playbooks)
Validate, dry-run, and guardrail playbook runs; pipeline-ready with audit exports.
Fewer failed runs by catching inventory and vars issues before apply.
Faster approvals with a single, human readable preflight report.
Lower outage risk through type checks, required keys, and safe defaults.
Cleaner repositories with consistent group inheritance and tag hygiene.
Higher change success rate from CI CD gates that block risky configs.
Better audit readiness with dated validation artifacts and remediation notes.
Partner with us to design, prototype, and deploy.
