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Documenting collections

Documenting modules and plugins

Documenting modules is thoroughly documented in Module format and documentation. Plugins can be documented the same way as modules, that is with DOCUMENTATION, EXAMPLES, and RETURN blocks.

Documenting roles

To document a role, you have to add a role argument spec by creating a file meta/argument_specs.yml in your role. See Role argument validation for details. As an example, you can look at the argument specs file of the sensu.sensu_go.install role on GitHub.

Build a docsite with antsibull-docs

You can use antsibull-docs to build a Sphinx-based docsite for your collection:

Create your collection and make sure you can use it with ansible-core by adding it to your COLLECTIONS_PATHS.
Create a directory dest and run antsibull-docs sphinx-init --use-current --dest-dir dest namespace.name, where namespace.name is the name of your collection.
Go into dest and run pip install -r requirements.txt. You might want to create a venv and activate it first to avoid installing this globally.
Then run ./build.sh.
Open build/html/index.html in a browser of your choice.

If you want to add additional documentation to your collection next to the plugin, module, and role documentation, see docs directory.