Ansible-lint

When developing Meza (or other Ansible project) on your local workstation without a virtual environment (e.g. VirtualBox) or VM, or Docker container - IOW, hacking old-school with just a git checkout - you will still want to have ansible-lint. To do this, create a Python Virtual Environment for your project and activate it. And then install ansible-lint in the Virtual Environment. Meza is pre-configured to ignore .venv or any directory ending in 'venv'

On an Ubuntu workstation, that's as easy as:

cd ~/src/meza
python -m venv .venv
source ./.venv/bin/activate
pip install ansible-lint
ansible-lint --help

Using it in VSCode

• You will probably need to activate your venv in the VSCode terminal.
• You can always exit the venv simply with 'deactivate'.
• VSCode will kill the venv when you exit the application - which means you need to reactivate if you restart VSCode.

Bonus

With a Python Virtual Environment enabled, you can install any other tools you need like pylint, yamllint, autopep8 etc.