Creating custom plugins
In this section, we will take you through a practical guide to creating a plugin. The example will be, by necessity, simple. However, hopefully, it will serve you well in guiding you in the principles and best practices of plugin development and give you a solid foundation to build more complex plugins. We will even show you how to integrate these with your playbooks and, when you’re ready, submit them to the official Ansible project for inclusion.
As we noted when we built a module, Ansible is written in Python, and its plugins are no exception. As a result, you will need to write your plugin in Python; so, to get started on developing a plugin, you will need to make sure you have Python and a few essential tools installed. If you already have Ansible running on your development machine, you probably have the required packages installed.
Let’s get started with creating a plugin. Although there are many similarities between coding modules...
