ansible/docs/docsite/rst/plugins/strategy.rst
Brian Coca b233f3f296 updated plugin docs (#30490)
* updated  docs

- for devs:
  - added inventory/vars section
  - made some updates to general section and other plugin types
- for users:
 - added 'user' plugin section to start describing the plugins
 - docs on types, what they are and how to use

- removed ref to deleted AUTHORS file
- corrected several typos/headers
- added descriptions to config.rst template
- ignore generated files for cli/plugins and config
- remove new generated files on `make clean`
- moved details from devguid and intro doc to plugin specific pages
- pretied up lookup notes
- changed precedence ref to not conflict config
- removed duplicate config data, as config is autogenerated and up to date
- put new plugins under playbooks
- added `pass` cause rst/python dislikes fractions
- removed dupe in .gitignore, alpha sorted to avoid moar dupes
- added try cause rst/python freaks out

* generate plugins into their own dir

only do plugins that support docs
use toctree from main plugins page
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.. contents:: Topics
Strategy Plugins
----------------
Strategy plugins control the flow of play execution, they handle task and host scheduleing.
Enabling Cache Plugins
++++++++++++++++++++++
Only one strategy plugin can be used in a play, but you can use different ones for each play in a playbook or ansible run.
The default is the :doc:`linear <strategy/linear>` plugin, you can change this default via :doc:`configuration <../config>`:
.. code-block:: shell
export ANSIBLE_STRATEGY=free
or in the `ansible.cfg` file:
.. code-block:: ini
[defaults]
strategy=linear
Or you can just speicfy the plugin in the play via the :ref:`strategy` keyword::
- hosts: all
strategy: debug
tasks:
- copy: src=myhosts dest=/etc/hosts
notify: restart_tomcat
- package: name=tomcat state=present
handlers:
- name: restart_tomcat
service: name=tomcat state=restarted
Plugin List
+++++++++++
You can use ``ansible-doc -t strategy -l`` to see the list of available plugins,
use ``ansible-doc -t strategy <plugin name>`` to see specific documents and examples.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1
:glob:
strategy/*
.. seealso::
:doc:`../playbooks`
An introduction to playbooks
:doc:`inventory`
Ansible inventory plugins
:doc:`callback`
Ansible callback plugins
:doc:`../playbooks_filters`
Jinja2 filter plugins
:doc:`../playbooks_tests`
Jinja2 test plugins
:doc:`../playbooks_lookups`
Jinja2 lookup plugins
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