I'd be happy if their was just a decent linter for all configuration files. My test process right now is to spin up a vm and test something like an nginx reload or an ansible-playbook, then if it passes apply it to a distributed testing environment and then if it passes consider applying it to production.

This seems crazy to me when intelli-sense for many languages can seemingly read my mind but configuration is in many ways still a trial and error process..

Does anyone know of ways to parse many of the common configuration file formats? From linting to code completion to best practice (or worst practice) checks. IF not and somebody wants my money yesterday, theirs your startup.