Add action_groups

[mariolenz]

SUMMARY

I think we should implement an action group since this can be quite useful. I guess sooner or later someone will open a feature request for this, anyway.

amazon.aws and community.aws seem to share the action group aws. I suggest the same here: community.vmware already uses vmware, so let's also use it here.

Additionally, we might consider renaming the action group of the modules in vmware.vmware_rest from vmware_rest to vmware, but this is off-topic here. Just wanted to mention it as an idea.

If you think it would be better to not share action groups between those collections, that's also fine for me. The important thing is to have one in order to allow people to use module defaults. If you think it would be better to have a unique name for the action group, it would be great if you could suggest one.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Pull Request

COMPONENT NAME

meta/runtime.yml

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ansible-collections/vmware.vmware_rest#440

[mikemorency]

im not familiar with action_groups. I read this but i still dont get it. What are they doing?

[mariolenz]

The modules in this collection have a lot of common parameters / options like hostname, username and password. If you have several tasks using those modules you can specify that they're always the same. This a voids boilerplate / copy& paste because you can say "if you run a module from this group always use this parameters". I think you can overwrite them in any task, though.

Module defaults groups mentions this as a feature preview, but I think it should be stable by now and the documentation is simply outdated.

[mikemorency]

that is pretty cool, i think its a good addition

[mariolenz]

Thanks for reviewing @mikemorency!

[bardielle]

@mariolenz thanks for your contribution