Extending Ansible
Ansible has matured over the years to support a wide variety of technologies, tools, operating systems, and processes. Its flexible architecture and modular implementation make it ideal for DevOps oriented groups with varying or diverse requirements. The extensible architecture that comprises Ansible was designed to support the creation of modules and expand the Ansible solution to fit the user's needs. As a result, Ansible itself and many of its now core modules derive from once available plugins.
Throughout the years, Ansible's creators added numerous API hooks and architectures in an effort to support expanding Ansible itself via a wide variety of means. The end result of this effort was a highly extensible system, which ...
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