Add ansible filetype so that LSP works correctly

init.lua

@@ -643,6 +643,9 @@ require('lazy').setup({
             },
           },
         },
+        ansiblels = {
+          filetypes = { 'yaml.ansible', 'ansible' },
+        },
       }
 
       -- Ensure the servers and tools above are installed
@@ -653,12 +656,13 @@ require('lazy').setup({
       --  You can press `g?` for help in this menu.
       require('mason').setup()
 
-      -- You can add other tools here that you want Mason to install
-      -- for you, so that they are available from within Neovim.
-      local ensure_installed = vim.tbl_keys(servers or {})
-      vim.list_extend(ensure_installed, {
-        'stylua', -- Used to format Lua code
-      })
+       -- You can add other tools here that you want Mason to install
+       -- for you, so that they are available from within Neovim.
+       local ensure_installed = vim.tbl_keys(servers or {})
+       vim.list_extend(ensure_installed, {
+         'stylua', -- Used to format Lua code
+         'ansible-language-server', -- Ansible LSP for YAML Ansible files
+       })
       require('mason-tool-installer').setup { ensure_installed = ensure_installed }
 
       require('mason-lspconfig').setup {

lua/custom/plugins/ansible.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+-- Ansible configuration for detecting .yml files in roles and playbooks directories
+return {
+  {
+    'neovim/nvim-lspconfig',
+    optional = true,
+    -- This table sets up file type detection for Ansible files
+    init = function()
+      -- Set up autocommand to detect Ansible files and set their filetype
+      local ansible_augroup = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup('ansible-detection', { clear = true })
+
+      vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'BufRead', 'BufNewFile' }, {
+        group = ansible_augroup,
+        pattern = { '*/roles/**/*.yml', '*/roles/**/*.yaml', '*/playbooks/**/*.yml', '*/playbooks/**/*.yaml', '*/hosts/**/*.yml', '*/hosts/**/*.yaml' },
+        callback = function()
+          vim.bo.filetype = 'yaml.ansible'
+        end,
+        desc = 'Set filetype to yaml.ansible for Ansible files',
+      })
+    end,
+  },
+}

lua/custom/plugins/init.lua

@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@
 --  I promise not to create any merge conflicts in this directory :)
 --
 -- See the kickstart.nvim README for more information
-return {}
+return {
+  require 'custom.plugins.ansible',
+}