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* Due to the takeover of freenode we're moving to a different irc network. * Our channels updated to point at the same channel name on libera.chat * Some links went to webchat.freenode.net. At this time, libera.chat doesn't point you to an official webchat client so I changed these to https://libera.chat. (kiwi irc does work with libera.chat so that could be another option). * In general, I used the name irc.libera.net for link names and https://libera.chat for link targets. This is because the irc service is hosted on irc.libera.chat but the project web server is hosted on libera.chat. (This appears to also be true for freenode but we were using http://irc.freenode.net which doesn't seem to work. Oops). * Removed http://irc.freenode.net from the linkcheck exceptions. linkcheck was actually correct to flag that as invalid (should have been http://frenode.net instead). * Looks like hte important people in #yaml are now in libera.chat * Link to where contributors should get help Add a link target and then link to where contributors should get support for developing groups of modules. * Update docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/developing_modules_in_groups.rst Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> Co-authored-by: John R Barker <john@johnrbarker.com> Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
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.. _intro_modules:
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Introduction to modules
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Modules (also referred to as "task plugins" or "library plugins") are discrete units of code that can be used from the command line or in a playbook task. Ansible executes each module, usually on the remote managed node, and collects return values. In Ansible 2.10 and later, most modules are hosted in collections.
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You can execute modules from the command line::
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ansible webservers -m service -a "name=httpd state=started"
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ansible webservers -m ping
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ansible webservers -m command -a "/sbin/reboot -t now"
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Each module supports taking arguments. Nearly all modules take ``key=value`` arguments, space delimited. Some modules take no arguments, and the command/shell modules simply take the string of the command you want to run.
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From playbooks, Ansible modules are executed in a very similar way::
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- name: reboot the servers
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command: /sbin/reboot -t now
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Another way to pass arguments to a module is using YAML syntax, also called 'complex args' ::
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- name: restart webserver
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service:
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name: httpd
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state: restarted
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All modules return JSON format data. This means modules can be written in any programming language. Modules should be idempotent, and should avoid making any changes if they detect that the current state matches the desired final state. When used in an Ansible playbook, modules can trigger 'change events' in the form of notifying :ref:`handlers <handlers>` to run additional tasks.
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You can access the documentation for each module from the command line with the ansible-doc tool::
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ansible-doc yum
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For a list of all available modules, see the :ref:`Collection docs <list_of_collections>`, or run the following at a command prompt::
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ansible-doc -l
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.. seealso::
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:ref:`intro_adhoc`
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Examples of using modules in /usr/bin/ansible
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:ref:`working_with_playbooks`
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Examples of using modules with /usr/bin/ansible-playbook
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:ref:`developing_modules`
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How to write your own modules
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:ref:`developing_api`
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Examples of using modules with the Python API
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`Mailing List <https://groups.google.com/group/ansible-project>`_
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Questions? Help? Ideas? Stop by the list on Google Groups
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`irc.libera.chat <https://libera.chat/>`_
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#ansible IRC chat channel
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