Schema validation for config file

[europ]

Summary

Schema of ansible-lint configuration file can be validated via YAMALE tool, which also supports definitions for custom rules.

Issue Type

• Feature Idea

Additional Information

This issue has been opened in account to a discussion available here - 7348a24#r39969016

Possible solution for TODO(ssbarnea): implement schema validation for config file in lib/ansiblelint/cli.py in fuction def load_config(config_file):.

[webknjaz]

It'd be great to see a comparison with other solutions.

[gundalow]

I like the suggestion, thanks for raising it.

Just as a point of reference we use the Python voluptuous package in a few places in ansible-base's CI for validating different parts of the code base. I've no idea how that compares to YAMALE.