ansible-runner

FWIW, ansible modules (all of them, to the best of my knowledge) operate via a stdin/stdout contract since that's the one universal api for "do this thing over (ssh|docker|ssm|local)". That's also why it supports writing plugins in any language (shell, compiled, python, etc) since `subprocess.Popen().communicate(b'{"do_awesome":true}')` works great DISCOVERING the available ansible actions is the JFC since, like all good things python, it depends on what's currently on the PYTHONPATH and what makes writing or using any such language-server some onoz And this wasn't what you asked, but ansible has a dedicated library for exec, since the normal `ansible` and `ansible-playbook` CLIs are really, really oriented toward interactive use: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner#readme

_Technically_ there's a Python API on it: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing... There's also a utility to help with the running of Ansible playbooks via Python (https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner). However, I've said this many times before—if your playbooks start mixing Python into tasks, you're either doing something wrong (it could be architected better), or it's time to write a custom Ansible module so the Python goes into a `.py` file and not into YAML. 99% of my playbooks are strict YAML with maybe a few Jinja filters, which make everything very readable. But I've also seen a ton of YAML that makes me want to barf.