Kickstart Language Support

Support for Kickstart (.ks) files in Visual Studio Code

Features

This extension adds the following features to Visual Studio Code:

• Syntax highlighting for .ks files.
• Linting for .ks files using ksvalidator.
• Completion support for .ks files.
• Snippets for commonly used sections in .ks files.

Linter install

The ksvalidator linter can typically be installed using dnf or yum on RHEL-based distributions of Linux:

dnf install pykickstart

Note: The package may be called something different depending on distribution and repo.

For other Linux distributions, pykickstart can be installed using Python 3 and pip:

python3 -m pip install pykickstart