plugin documentation tool
displays information on modules installed in Ansible libraries. It displays a terse listing of plugins and their short descriptions, provides a printout of their DOCUMENTATION strings, and it can create a short “snippet” which can be pasted into a playbook.
--version¶show program’s version number, config file location, configured module search path, module location, executable location and exit
-F, --list_files¶Show plugin names and their source files without summaries (implies –list)
-M, --module-path¶prepend colon-separated path(s) to module library (default=~/.ansible/plugins/modules:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules)
-h, --help¶show this help message and exit
-j, --json¶For internal testing only Dump json metadata for all plugins.
-l, --list¶List available plugins
-s, --snippet¶Show playbook snippet for specified plugin(s)
-t <TYPE>, --type <TYPE>¶Choose which plugin type (defaults to “module”). Available plugin types are : (‘become’, ‘cache’, ‘callback’, ‘cliconf’, ‘connection’, ‘httpapi’, ‘inventory’, ‘lookup’, ‘shell’, ‘module’, ‘strategy’, ‘vars’)
-v, --verbose¶verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable connection debugging)
The following environment variables may be specified.
ANSIBLE_CONFIG – Override the default ansible config file
Many more are available for most options in ansible.cfg
/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg – Config file, used if present
~/.ansible.cfg – User config file, overrides the default config if present