diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 23395480075..788d0e45dc3 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ find_python_module(openpyxl)
 find_python_module(pandas)
 find_python_module(pcre2)
 find_python_module(cmakelint)
+find_python_module(github)
 
 # sphinx documentation requirements
 find_python_module(sphinx)
@@ -268,6 +269,7 @@ message(STATUS "python pcre2 module (optional): ${PY_PCRE2}")
 message(STATUS "python lxml module (optional): ${PY_LXML}")
 message(STATUS "python prometheus-client module (optional): ${PY_PROMETHEUS_CLIENT}")
 message(STATUS "python compliance-trestle module (optional): ${PY_TRESTLE}")
+message(STATUS "python github (PyGitHub) module (optional): ${PY_GITHUB}")
 message(STATUS " ")
 
 message(STATUS "Build options:")
diff --git a/docs/manual/developer/05_tools_and_utilities.md b/docs/manual/developer/05_tools_and_utilities.md
index a2ea6289567..1bcc8220659 100644
--- a/docs/manual/developer/05_tools_and_utilities.md
+++ b/docs/manual/developer/05_tools_and_utilities.md
@@ -704,3 +704,15 @@ $ ./build_product ocp4
 $ ./utils/rule_dir_json.py
 $ ./utils/oscal/build_cd_from_policy.py -o build/ocp4.json -p fedramp_rev4_high -pr ocp4 -c nist_ocp4:high
 ```
+
+### `utils/ansible_playbook_to_role.py` – Generates Ansible Roles and pushes them to Github
+
+This script converts the Ansible playbooks created by the build system and converts them to Ansible roles and can upload them to GitHub.
+
+
+An example of how to execute the script to generate roles locally:
+
+```bash
+$ ./build_product rhel9
+$ ./utils/ansible_playbook_to_role.py --dry-run output
+```
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index d40f61590c0..0ffd58563c6 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ lxml
 lxml-stubs
 requests
 compliance-trestle==2.4.0
+PyGitHub
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index 5bde9bbbc8e..b074241aaea 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -350,3 +350,19 @@ if(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR GREATER 2 AND PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR GREATER 6)
         set_tests_properties("utils-import_disa_stig_sanity" PROPERTIES LABELS quick)
     )
 endif()
+
+
+if(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR GREATER 2 AND PY_GITHUB)
+    add_test(
+        NAME "utils-ansible-playbook-to-role-help"
+        COMMAND env "PYTHONPATH=$ENV{PYTHONPATH}" "${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}" "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/utils/ansible_playbook_to_role.py" "--help"
+    )
+    set_tests_properties("utils-ansible-playbook-to-role-help" PROPERTIES LABELS quick)
+    if(SSG_PRODUCT_RHEL9)
+        file(MAKE_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/roles")
+        add_test(
+            NAME "utils-ansible-playbook-to-role-rhel9"
+            COMMAND env "PYTHONPATH=$ENV{PYTHONPATH}" "${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}" "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/utils/ansible_playbook_to_role.py" "--dry-run" "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/roles" "--product" "rhel9" "--build-playbooks-dir" "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/ansible"
+        )
+    endif()
+endif()
diff --git a/utils/ansible_playbook_to_role.py b/utils/ansible_playbook_to_role.py
index c8d3c19e16d..e9a7a961861 100755
--- a/utils/ansible_playbook_to_role.py
+++ b/utils/ansible_playbook_to_role.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 
@@ -15,17 +14,25 @@
 import yaml
 import collections
 
+
+SSG_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
+PLAYBOOK_ROOT = os.path.join(SSG_ROOT, "build", "ansible")
+
 try:
     from github import Github, InputGitAuthor, UnknownObjectException
 except ImportError:
-    sys.stderr.write("Please install PyGithub, on Fedora it's in the "
-                     "python-PyGithub package.\n")
-    sys.exit(1)
+    print("Please install PyGithub, on Fedora it's in the python-PyGithub package.",
+          file=sys.stderr)
+    raise SystemExit(1)
 
 
-import ssg.ansible
-import ssg.yaml
-from ssg.utils import mkdir_p
+try:
+    import ssg.ansible
+    import ssg.yaml
+    from ssg.utils import mkdir_p
+except ImportError:
+    print("Unable to find the ssg module. Please run 'source .pyenv'", file=sys.stderr)
+    raise SystemExit(1)
 
 
 def memoize(f):
@@ -486,17 +493,18 @@ def parse_args():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
         description='Generates Ansible Roles and pushes them to Github')
     parser.add_argument(
-        "--build-playbooks-dir", required=True,
+        "--build-playbooks-dir",
         help="Path to directory containing the generated Ansible Playbooks. "
-        "Most likely this is going to be ./build/ansible",
-        dest="build_playbooks_dir")
+        "Most likely this is going to be ./build/ansible. Defaults to {}".format(PLAYBOOK_ROOT),
+        dest="build_playbooks_dir", default=PLAYBOOK_ROOT)
     parser.add_argument(
         "--dry-run", "-d", dest="dry_run",
-        help="Do not push Ansible Roles to the Github, store them only to local directory"
+        help="Do not push Ansible Roles to Github, store them only to the given local directory."
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--organization", "-o", default=ORGANIZATION_NAME,
-        help="Name of the Github organization")
+        help="Name of the Github organization to publish roles to. "
+             "Defaults to {}.".format(ORGANIZATION_NAME))
     parser.add_argument(
         "--profile", "-p", default=[], action="append",
         metavar="PROFILE", choices=PROFILE_ALLOWLIST,
@@ -507,7 +515,7 @@ def parse_args():
         help="What products to upload, if not specified, upload all that are applicable.")
     parser.add_argument(
         "--tag-release", "-n", default=False, action="store_true",
-        help="Tag a new release in GitHub")
+        help="Tag a new release in GitHub. Defaults to False.")
     parser.add_argument(
         "--token", "-t", dest="token",
         help="GitHub token used for organization authorization")
@@ -598,7 +606,7 @@ def main():
             elif repo.name not in potential_roles:
                 print("Repo '%s' is not managed by this script. "
                       "It may need to be deleted, please verify and do that "
-                      "manually!" % repo.name)
+                      "manually!" % repo.name, file=sys.stderr)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":