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# Working With Plugins

Plugins are pieces of code that augment Ansible’s core functionality. Ansible uses a plugin architecture to enable a rich, flexible and expandable feature set.

Ansible ships with a number of handy plugins, and you can easily write your own.

This section covers the various types of plugins that are included with Ansible:

- Action Plugins
- Become Plugins
- Cache Plugins
- Callback Plugins
- Cliconf Plugins
- Connection Plugins
- Httpapi Plugins
- Inventory Plugins
- Lookup Plugins
- Shell Plugins
- Strategy Plugins
- Vars Plugins
- Filters
- Tests
- Plugin Filter Configuration

See also

About Playbooks
  An introduction to playbooks
ansible_configuration_settings
  Ansible configuration documentation and settings
Working with Command Line Tools
  Ansible tools, description and options
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