* Pipe lookup plugin usage example documentation fix (#70679)
(cherry picked from commit 58d24584c0)
* Fix misleading documentation for naming blocks (#68458)
From what I have observed it is the block itself that doesn't support the name attribute rather than the tasks inside the block.
* Update docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_blocks.rst
Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <879121+acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 633c2d0522)
* Fix incorrect statement to set a variable for a playbook (#70712)
Fixes#70638
(cherry picked from commit 59513ae673)
* Make Sources, Plugins sections easier to read (#70652)
Re-wrote the Inventory Sources section and also the next section to have shorter, clearer sentences with a more active voice.
(cherry picked from commit fb3db170cc)
* fix rstcheck problem and gitignore collections dir (#70764)
(cherry picked from commit 24e5d3a51c)
* add note for write permission on rst files (#70766)
* add note for write permission on rst files
* Update docs/docsite/rst/community/documentation_contributions.rst
Co-authored-by: Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2a7df5e07b)
* Modification of 'Adding modules and plugins locally' topic (#70659)
* Remediated the topic to comply with IBM style guide and minimalism practices
Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <879121+acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1733253297)
* WIP: add collections as an intersphinx link (#70826)
* adds collections as a ref for intersphinx
* no need for intersphinx
Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit b28d59124b)
* Proper example for splitext filter in docs (#70494)
* Update playbooks_filters.rst with a clear example of how to extract its 2 tokens.
Co-authored-by: Sloane Hertel <shertel@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7a42d27462)
* Few fixes for reference_appendices/faq.html (#70719)
* Format using `` instead of `, add line breaks for long lines, rephrase or remove useless text.
Move some text.
* Add clearer version of OpenSSh is affected by SCP bug
* Review some pages using ansible doc writing guide.
(cherry picked from commit 92e16c2838)
Co-authored-by: Roman Gorshunov <34521622+gorshunovr@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: David Rieger <david@isan.engineer>
Co-authored-by: Baptiste Mille-Mathias <baptiste.millemathias@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Stef B <regendo@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Sayee <57951841+sayee-jadhav@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <879121+acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Fixmetal <fixmetal@gmail.com>
* 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
* update the developing_inventory docs to show ungrouped as a dict with a "children" key; avoid
[WARNING]: Found both group and host with same name: ungrouped
* 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.
* 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
* 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
Sandra McCann