Plugins built into images and not into UI

[chrisdola]

I apologize ahead of time for this being a generic "issue". I tried asking on the forum and got zero response... Credential plugins seem to get zero love in the community. :)

I cannot find any documentation on how these plugins are built and published to the main AWX project & UI. I found where this repo is listed in the requirements_git file, and I can see that they are being pulled into the base image, but the plugins themselves are neither shown in the UI or returned via the API.

Can we get some documentation or at least high level steps on how to test/include these plugins when building awx from devel?

[tvo318]

@chrisdola - can you take a look at these docs and see if it might be what you're looking for? https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/awx/en/24.6.1/userguide/credential_plugins.html#ug-credential-plugins

This doc provides a link that takes you to the developer docs, where there's a section to write custom credential plugins..
Might this be what’s missing? https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/docs/credentials/credential_plugins.md#writing-custom-credential-plugins

If not, please let me know if they are indeed missing, and I can add them!

[chrisdola]

The first link are the docs for creating a new Credential in AAP/Tower. I'm looking for the docs to create a Credential Plugin and how to then build those new plugins into AWX.

The second touches on creating credential plugins at a high level, but is clearly for the legacy non-container based AWX builds. With the new Operator based stuff you can only include credential plugins be building the full AWX project... You cannot use the awx-python install or awx-manage commands included in that documentation to install the plugins because that requires a full restart of the control containers...