Stop risky changes before they deploy with Policy Guardrails in Knee CLI. The CLI blocks run when secrets or plaintext keys are present, when unsafe tasks are detected, or when required tags and policies are missing. It scans playbooks, roles, and vars, then returns clear, human-readable errors with remediation tips. Enforce Ansible policy guardrails locally and in CI CD to keep infrastructure as code secure and compliant.
Playbooks often ship with hardcoded secrets, shell tasks with unsafe flags, or missing tags. Without automated policy guardrails, these errors pass code review and cause outages, leaks, and failed audits. Teams lack a consistent gate that blocks risky patterns across laptops and CI CD, so security and compliance depend on manual checks.
Knee CLI scans inventory, vars, and playbooks for secret patterns and high entropy strings, checks modules and arguments against an allow and deny list, and validates required tags, become rules, and handlers. If it finds a violation, the run is blocked with an explicit error, a reason code, and a suggested fix. Results export to PR comments or build artifacts so reviewers see what failed and why. Policies are versioned and can be enforced pre-commit, on pull requests, and in release pipelines.
Knee (CLI for Ansible Playbooks)
Validate, dry-run, and guardrail playbook runs; pipeline-ready with audit exports.
Fewer security incidents by blocking leaked secrets and unsafe tasks.
Higher change success rate with consistent CI CD gates for risky patterns.
Faster reviews thanks to clear errors and suggested remediation steps.
Better compliance with enforceable policies and audit ready artifacts.
Reduced rollback and rework cost through early, automated checks.
Stronger engineering hygiene across teams and environments.
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