Shared Config Across Multiple Projects

[Shackelford-Arden]

Scenario

My team and I manage a set of 20-30 Ansible roles. We'd like to have them all share the same ansible-lint config. While we can relatively easily manage the config file in each repo w/ some additional tooling, we'd like to find a better way, if one exists.

Question

Is there a built-in method w/ ansible-lint to have it reference a git repo or URL instead of having to have a local file present in each repo?

Existing Method

What I'm doing now is essentially setting up each repo to have CI download the shared config and point ansible-lint to it.

Challenges

Local Reproduction

When team members are developing roles locally, they have to manually manage pulling down the shared config each time they need it, or setting themselves up w/ some scripts/etc to run ansible-lint locally on the role they're developing.

Would be really handy to be able to have it where we can tell ansible-lint to look at a repo/URL.

[sean-m-sullivan]

There is no one answer, the best answer would be to put it in a CI template that is shared and injected into the project when the linting runs. Though this prevents it being run locally.

[Shackelford-Arden]

Yeah, that's kind of what I figured, which is why I'm now working on doing just as you've described.

Kind of makes me think that opening a feature request might be the only thing I could really do at this point.

[cavcrosby]

Yea, I think it would be worth raising an issue/feature request to see if the maintainers believe this would be worth integrating.