Sharing plugins with the community

You may wish to submit your new plugin to the Ansible project, just as we considered for our custom modules in Chapter 5, Consuming and Creating Modules. The process for doing this with plugins is almost identical to what you do for modules, which this section will recap.

Using the following process will submit a real request to the Ansible project on GitHub to merge the code you submit with their code. Do not follow this process unless you genuinely have a new module that is ready for submission to the Ansible codebase.

In order to submit your plugin as a PR of the Ansible repository, you first need to fork the devel branch of the official Ansible repository. To do this, log into your GitHub account on ...

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