Technical requirements

This chapter assumes that you have set up your control host with Ansible, as detailed in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Ansible, and are using the most recent version available – the examples in this chapter were tested with ansible-core version 2.15. This chapter also assumes that you have at least one additional host to test against. Ideally, this should be Linux-based. Although we will give specific examples of hostnames in this chapter, you are free to substitute them with your own hostname and/or IP address. Details of how to do this will be provided in the appropriate places.

The module development work that will be covered in this chapter assumes the presence of a Python 3 development environment on your computer and that you are running either Linux, FreeBSD, or macOS. Where additional Python modules are needed, their installation is documented. The task of building module documentation has some very specific requirements around Python 3.10...