There are modules for all of the common system administration tasks available in Ansible. There are currently 495 modules shipped with Ansible, which is a huge increase over the 141 modules that shipped with it in October 2013.
While writing this chapter, I thought about creating an iptables module, a htpasswd module, and a haproxy module as an example, but Ansible ships with all of these modules already. Instead, we’re going to be creating a wp_user module with which to update user details in a WordPress install using Ansible via WordPress’ RPC API.
About Ansible Modules
All of the core modules in Ansible are developed ...
