* add more anchors to collections docs (#62827)
(cherry picked from commit 7e01de96d7)
* add anchors to support galaxy links (#62808)
(cherry picked from commit 1b3bf33bdf)
* doc: fix typos (#62852)
(cherry picked from commit b33ae14949)
* Add some documentation about using plugins in collections (#62465)
- FQCN requirements
- Sharing code in collections
- Limitations with inventory caching
(cherry picked from commit d41050b28b)
* Remove Latin phrases from the docs (#62419)
* add styleguide about avoiding use of latin words
(cherry picked from commit e7436e278f)
* ovirt: Fixing typo in ovirt_disk examples (#62962)
(cherry picked from commit 50dc41cca2)
* vmware guidlines: adjust the location of cloud-config-vcenter.ini.template (#62970)
Update the location of the cloud-config-vcenter.ini.template template.
The file has been moved by: 2e7d36a3f9.
(cherry picked from commit 7ecfa4a471)
* Prefer https:// links in the docs site (#62939)
This is a follow-up of last year's 1a11cec. It deals with links which
at that point either were not present or did not support https://.
(cherry picked from commit c8315bfd60)
* fix minor typos (#62950)
(cherry picked from commit ad580a71c4)
* Modernize Vagrant documentation (#62923)
* By requiring a slightly newer Vagrant version (from 2015) we get the
same generated Ansible inventory format is still used by today's
version of Vagrant. That extended inventory format also has the
benefit of allowing for simpler Ansible examples.
* Switching to a current and supported Ubuntu LTS version.
(cherry picked from commit 0d79013f51)
* add ios/iosxr deprecated modules (#62908)
(cherry picked from commit 6bbd9c9eca)
* Replace InventoryFileCacheModule with a better developer-interface
Use new interface for inventory plugins with backwards compatibility
Auto-update the backing cache-plugin if the cache has changed after parsing the inventory plugin
* Update CacheModules to use the config system and add a deprecation warning if they are being imported directly rather than using cache_loader
* Fix foreman inventory caching
* Add tests
* Add integration test to check that fact caching works normally with cache plugins using ansible.constants and inventory caching provides a helpful error for non-compatible cache plugins
* Add some developer documentation for inventory and cache plugins
* Add user documentation for inventory caching
* Add deprecation docs
* Apply suggestions from docs review
* Add changelog
* Changed 'Control Machine' to 'Control Node' in the documentation. Changing the term 'Control Machine' to 'Control Node', to be in line with the basic concepts here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/getting_started/basic_concepts.html
Also for both entities; Control/Managed using the same common denominator 'Node' brings consistency.
* Updated reference links to new term.
Example instantiates an AnsibleError which derives from Exception but doesn't actually raise it like intended. This is misleading as it's not clear without examining the code for AnsibleError to know that it's not some function which would raise the exception automatically.
* inventory plugin docs
* added set options
* minor wording and formatting fixes
* changed headers to std as per #35520, also added to main readme
* unified inventory plugin devel, referenced from generic plugin dev
* fixed typos and update as per feedback
* 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
* developing_modules.rst is now in dev_guide, sync changes and delete the old version
* Cleaner RST & formatted code
* Tidyup roadmaps
* Link to repomerge
* Pull in abadger's fixes From https://github.com/ansible/ansible/compare/docs-code-block-fixes?expand=1
* Clean docsite/rst (apart from ROADMAP
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