diff --git a/src/__phutil_library_map__.php b/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
--- a/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
+++ b/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     'ArcanistAliasWorkflow' => 'workflow/ArcanistAliasWorkflow.php',
     'ArcanistAmendWorkflow' => 'workflow/ArcanistAmendWorkflow.php',
     'ArcanistAnoidWorkflow' => 'workflow/ArcanistAnoidWorkflow.php',
+    'ArcanistAnsibleLintLinter' => 'lint/linter/ArcanistAnsibleLintLinter.php',
     'ArcanistBackoutWorkflow' => 'workflow/ArcanistBackoutWorkflow.php',
     'ArcanistBaseCommitParser' => 'parser/ArcanistBaseCommitParser.php',
     'ArcanistBaseCommitParserTestCase' => 'parser/__tests__/ArcanistBaseCommitParserTestCase.php',
@@ -224,6 +225,7 @@
     'ArcanistAliasWorkflow' => 'ArcanistWorkflow',
     'ArcanistAmendWorkflow' => 'ArcanistWorkflow',
     'ArcanistAnoidWorkflow' => 'ArcanistWorkflow',
+    'ArcanistAnsibleLintLinter' => 'ArcanistExternalLinter',
     'ArcanistBackoutWorkflow' => 'ArcanistWorkflow',
     'ArcanistBaseCommitParserTestCase' => 'ArcanistTestCase',
     'ArcanistBaseUnitTestEngine' => 'ArcanistUnitTestEngine',
diff --git a/src/lint/linter/ArcanistAnsibleLintLinter.php b/src/lint/linter/ArcanistAnsibleLintLinter.php
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lint/linter/ArcanistAnsibleLintLinter.php
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+<?php
+
+final class ArcanistAnsibleLintLinter extends ArcanistExternalLinter {
+  public function getInfoName() {
+    return 'Ansible-Lint';
+  }
+
+  public function getInfoURI() {
+    return 'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ansible-lint';
+  }
+
+  public function getInfoDescription() {
+    return pht(
+      'Uses `ansible-lint` to check Ansible playbooks for practices '.
+      'and behaviour that could potentially be improved.');
+  }
+
+  public function getLinterName() {
+    return 'ansible-lint';
+  }
+
+  public function getLinterConfigurationName() {
+    return 'ansible-lint';
+  }
+
+  public function getDefaultBinary() {
+    return 'ansible-lint';
+  }
+
+  /*
+  protected function getDefaultFlags() {
+    return ['-q',];
+  }
+  */
+
+  public function getInstallInstructions() {
+    return pht('Install ansible-lint using `pip install ansible-lint`.');
+  }
+
+  public function shouldExpectCommandErrors() {
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  protected function parseLinterOutput($path, $err, $stdout, $stderr) {
+    /* example output:
+[ANSIBLE0002] Trailing whitespace
+/home/michel/tools/playbooks/roles/gradle/tasks/main.yml:34
+
+
+[ANSIBLE0006] git used in place of git module
+/home/michel/tools/playbooks/roles/migrate-repos/tasks/main.yml:0
+Task/Handler: tv -- check origin path
+
+    */
+    $lints = preg_split('/\[/', $stdout, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
+
+    $messages = array();
+
+    foreach ($lints as $lint) {
+      $matches = null;
+      $regexp = '/^(\S+)\]\h+(.+)\n(.+):(\d+)\n(.*)$/s';
+      if (!preg_match($regexp, $lint, $matches)) {
+        var_dump($lint);
+        continue;
+      }
+      foreach ($matches as $key => $match) {
+        $matches[$key] = trim($match);
+      }
+
+      /* bug in ansible-lint fixed in pull request #46:
+         https://github.com/willthames/ansible-lint/pull/46
+
+      if ($matches[3] == 0) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      */
+
+      $message = new ArcanistLintMessage();
+      $message->setPath($path);
+      $message->setLine($matches[4]);
+      $message->setChar(1);
+
+      $message->setCode($matches[1]);
+      $message->setName($matches[2]);
+      $message->setDescription($matches[3]);
+      // $message->setDescription("Hello");
+      // $message->setSeverity($this->getLintMessageSeverity($matches[1]));
+      $message->setSeverity(ArcanistLintSeverity::SEVERITY_WARNING);
+
+      $messages[] = $message;
+    }
+
+    if ($err && !$messages) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    return $messages;
+  }
+}