Modules
Modules are the main building blocks of Ansible playbooks. Although we do not generally speak of “module plugins”, a module is a type of plugin. For a developer-focused description of the differences between modules and other plugins, see Modules and plugins: what is the difference?.
Enabling modules
You can enable a custom module by dropping it into one of these locations:
any directory added to the
ANSIBLE_LIBRARY
environment variable ($ANSIBLE_LIBRARY
takes a colon-separated list like$PATH
)~/.ansible/plugins/modules/
/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules/
For more information on using local custom modules, see Adding a module or plugin outside of a collection.
Using modules
For information on using modules in ad hoc tasks, see Introduction to ad hoc commands. For information on using modules in playbooks, see Ansible playbooks.
See also
- Ansible playbooks
An introduction to playbooks
- Developing modules
An introduction to creating Ansible modules
- Developing collections
A guide to creating Ansible collections
- User Mailing List
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