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
• Shell Plugins
• Strategy Plugins
• Vars Plugins
• Filters
• Tests
• Plugin Filter Configuration

See also

• About Playbooks
• An introduction to playbooks
• Ansible Configuration Settings
• Ansible configuration documentation and settings
• Working with command line tools
• Ansible tools, description and options
• User Mailing List
• Have a question? Stop by the google group!
• irc.freenode.net

• ansible IRC chat channel