What are the different types of plugins available in Ansible

Question

I just started learning Ansible and would like to know different types of plugins available in Ansible. Thank you.

Answer 1

Ansible provides a huge variety of plugins which makes it easier to work with Ansible. These are the available plugins:

• Action Plugins
• Cache Plugins
• Callback Plugins
• Connection Plugins
• Inventory Plugins
• Lookup Plugins
• Shell Plugins
• Strategy Plugins
• Vars Plugins
• Filters
• Tests
• Plugin Filter Configuration