The documentation would indeed be nice, however it really doesn't go into
great detail on how plugins are loaded, when they are part of role. In my
specific case, I used the example in _the source_ for a lookup. I copied
their plugin code exactly (to load the data from a file to a variable)
since it is close to what I need. I was able to run things just ducky.
Then I changed the name of my alleged lookup plugin to "prospectors.py"
and changed the name of the call to {{ lookup('prospectors',
'vars/prospectors/Base.yaml') }}. It fails. That means either my plugin
is in the wrong place (and since it is in a role that I need to be portable
it should be in the role hierarchy) or there is some reference to the name
in the code that I missed. The documentation doesnt say anything about the
relationship between the name of the lookup plugin, and how it is called in
the playbook. Since "file" is a built-in, the example is not really valid.
Thanks for responding. Appreciate your taking the time to look at my
problem.
>
> > The problems I am currently struggling with are these:
> >
> > Where does the plugin go within the role folder hierarchy, or does it
> need
> > to be global? I have found various contradictory sources that state it
> > goes in "plugins/lookup" or "lookup_plugins",or in Ansible root.
>
> Instead of looking around why not just go to _the source_, the Ansible
> docmentation?
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_plugins.html
>
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_plugins.html#distributing-plugins
>
>
>
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> Kai Stian Olstad
>
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