Creating custom modules for Ansible

In the previous sections, you learned how to automate operations if the standard modules are not available for specific tasks. But modules are the standard way of implementing automation and help you develop Ansible playbooks without worrying about the complex operations in the backend. If you know the backend operations and how to execute the tasks in the backend, then create a module for Ansible to execute a specific operation. Finally, contribute it back to the community via Ansible collections. That is the way the open source community grows.

Facts to check before creating a custom Ansible module

You can use any programming language (which can be called by the Ansible API, the ansible command, or the ansible-playbook command), libraries, and methods for your new Ansible module. Most of the Ansible modules that you are using now are written in the Python programming language. Before developing a new module, check yourself on the following...