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, Creating and Consuming Modules. The process for doing this with plugins is almost identical to what you do for modules, which this section will recap.

Note

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 to be submitted to the Ansible code base.

To submit your plugin as a PR of the Ansible repository, you need to fork the devel branch of the official Ansible repository. To do this, log in to your GitHub account on your web browser (or create an account if you don’t already have one), and then navigate to https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git. Click on Fork at the top-right corner of the page:



Figure 7.3 – Ansible GitHub repository...