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Mastering Ansible
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Mastering Ansible

by Jesse Keating
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
236 pages
4h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 8. Extending Ansible

Ansible takes the kitchen sink approach to functionality. There are nearly 300 modules available for use within Ansible at the time of writing this book. In addition, there are numerous callback plugins, lookup plugins, filter plugins, and dynamic inventory plugins. Even with all of that functionality, there still can exist a need to add new functionality.

This chapter will explore the following ways in which new capabilities can be added to Ansible:

  • Developing modules
  • Developing plugins
  • Developing dynamic inventory plugins

Developing modules

Modules are the workhorses of Ansible. They provide just enough abstraction to enable playbooks to be stated simply and clearly. There are nearly 150 core modules maintained by the ...

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