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.. _working_with_modules:
Working With Modules
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
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modules_intro
modules_support
Collections docs generation (#59761) * Build documentation for Ansible-2.10 (formerly known as ACD). Builds plugin docs from collections whose source is on galaxy The new command downloads collections from galaxy, then finds the plugins inside of them to get the documentation for those plugins. * Update the python syntax checks * docs builds can now require python 3.6+. * Move plugin formatter code out to an external tool, antsibull-docs. Collection owners want to be able to extract docs for their own websites as well. * The jinja2 filters, tests, and other support code have moved to antsibull * Remove document_plugins as that has now been integrated into antsibull-docs * Cleanup and bugfix to other build script code: * The Commands class needed to have its metaclass set for abstractmethod to work correctly * Fix lint issues in some command plugins * Add the docs/docsite/rst/collections to .gitignore as everything in that directory will be generated so we don't want any of it saved in the git repository * gitignore the build dir and remove edit docs link on module pages * Add docs/rst/collections as a directory to remove on make clean * Split the collections docs from the main docs * remove version and edit on github * remove version banner for just collections * clarify examples need collection keyword defined * Remove references to plugin documentation locations that no longer exist. * Perhaps the pages in plugins/*.rst should be deprecated altogether and their content moved? * If not, perhaps we want to rephrase and link into the collection documentation? * Or perhaps we want to link to the plugins which are present in collections/ansible/builtin? * Remove PYTHONPATH from the build-ansible calls One of the design goals of the build-ansible.py script was for it to automatically set its library path to include the checkout of ansible and the library of code to implement itself. Because it automatically includes the checkout of ansible, we don't need to set PYTHONPATH in the Makefile any longer. * Create a command to only build ansible-base plugin docs * When building docs for devel, only build the ansible-base docs for now. This is because antsibull needs support for building a "devel tree" of docs. This can be changed once that is implemented * When building docs for the sanity tests, only build the ansible-base plugin docs for now. Those are the docs which are in this repo so that seems appropriate for now.
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Ansible ships with a number of modules (called the 'module library')
that can be executed directly on remote hosts or through :ref:`Playbooks <working_with_playbooks>`.
Users can also write their own modules. These modules can control system resources,
like services, packages, or files (anything really), or handle executing system commands.
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.. seealso::
:ref:`intro_adhoc`
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Examples of using modules in /usr/bin/ansible
:ref:`playbooks_intro`
Introduction to using modules with /usr/bin/ansible-playbook
:ref:`developing_modules_general`
How to write your own modules
:ref:`developing_api`
Examples of using modules with the Python API
:ref:`interpreter_discovery`
Configuring the right Python interpreter on target hosts
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