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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not generator, validator. It validates configuration files . Ansible is not flexible in comparison with Sparrow, you'd need to write more boilerplate code to do the same ... Also core ansible modules search is limited by "one line" mode, thus it does not allow to search for example within nested structures, like if we want something in between or in nested blocks, or search for sequences, like when we want to search a sequence of strings, a,b,c,d etc, Sparrow does allow al thatl as it has ranges/sequential/SLN search by design. Sparrow allows to generate check rules in runtime as well, Ansible can't