Practical Ansible 2

Learning to integrate custom plugins with Ansible source code

So far, we have only tested our plugin in a standalone manner. This is all well and good, but what if you actually wanted to add it either to your own fork of the Ansible source code—or, better yet, submit it back to the Ansible project for inclusion with a PR? Fortunately, this process is very similar to the one we covered in Chapter 5, Consuming and Creating Modules, only with slightly different folder structures.

As before, your first task will be to obtain a copy of the official Ansible project source code—for example, by cloning the GitHub repository to your local machine:

$ git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git$ cd ansible

Next, you will need to copy your plugin ...