Advanced Ansible — developer: modules, plugins and collections

• Understand the internal architecture of modules and their lifecycle.
• Develop robust, idempotent Python modules.
• Write unit test suites and simulate engine calls.
• Develop plugins: callback, filter, lookup and action.
• Package modules and plugins into a versioned collection.
• Build a complete continuous integration pipeline through to publication.

• Python developers and DevOps engineers.
• Automation engineers and internal collection maintainers.
• Platform teams building their automation tooling.

• Ansible fundamentals course or equivalent level.
• Intermediate-level Python is essential.

Day 1 — Architecture and modules

• Module lifecycle: invocation, serialization, execution, return
• Module interface: argument specification, types and constraints
• Check mode, diff mode and shared libraries

Day 2 — Tests and plugins

• Unit tests, test data sets and engine simulation
• Callback plugins and custom filters
• Lookup and action plugins: use cases and implementation

Day 3 — Collections and continuous integration

• Collection structure, metadata and versioning
• Publishing to an internal or public repository
• CI pipeline: static analysis, compliance tests, publication