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Shell Plugins

Shell plugins work to ensure that the basic commands Ansible runs are properly formatted to work with the target machine and allow the user to configure certain behaviors related to how Ansible executes tasks.

Enabling Shell Plugins

You can add a custom shell plugin by dropping it into a shell_plugins directory adjacent to your play, inside a role, or by putting it in one of the shell plugin directory sources configured in ansible.cfg <ansible_configuration_settings>.

Warning

You should not alter which plugin is used unless you have a setup in which the default /bin/sh is not a POSIX compatible shell or is not available for execution.

Using Shell Plugins

In addition to the default configuration settings in ansible_configuration_settings, you can use the connection variable ansible_shell_type <ansible_shell_type> to select the plugin to use. In this case, you will also want to update the ansible_shell_executable <ansible_shell_executable> to match.

You can further control the settings for each plugin via other configuration options detailed in the plugin themselves (linked below).

maxdepth

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shell/*

../user_guide/playbooks

An introduction to playbooks

inventory

Ansible inventory plugins

callback

Ansible callback plugins

../user_guide/playbooks_filters

Jinja2 filter plugins

../user_guide/playbooks_tests

Jinja2 test plugins

../user_guide/playbooks_lookups

Jinja2 lookup plugins

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