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Action Plugins

Enabling action plugins
Using action plugins
Plugin list

Action plugins act in conjunction with modules to execute the actions required by playbook tasks. They usually execute automatically in the background doing prerequisite work before modules execute.

The ‘normal’ action plugin is used for modules that do not already have an action plugin.

Enabling action plugins 

You can enable a custom action plugin by either dropping it into the action_plugins directory adjacent to your play, inside a role, or by putting it in one of the action plugin directory sources configured in ansible.cfg.

Using action plugins 

Action plugin are executed by default when an associated module is used; no action is required.

Plugin list 

You cannot list action plugins directly, they show up as their counterpart modules:

Use ansible-doc -l to see the list of available modules. Use ansible-doc <name> to see specific documentation and examples, this should note if the module has a corresponding action plugin.

Action Plugins

Enabling action plugins

Using action plugins

Plugin list

Enabling action plugins 

Using action plugins 

Plugin list 