Working With Plugins

Plugins are pieces of code that augment Ansible’s core functionality. Ansible uses a plugin architecture to enable a rich, flexible and expandable feature set.

Ansible ships with a number of handy plugins, and you can easily write your own.

This section covers the various types of plugins that are included with Ansible:

• Action Plugins
• Become Plugins
• Cache Plugins
• Callback Plugins
• Cliconf Plugins
• Connection Plugins
• Httpapi Plugins
• Inventory Plugins
• Lookup Plugins
• Netconf Plugins
• Shell Plugins
• Strategy Plugins
• Vars Plugins
• Using filters to manipulate data
• Tests
• Rejecting modules