In this recipe, we are looking at essential plugins that are often used. We will be looking at the following plugins:
These plugins are just normal plugins that are used regularly (well...at least by me). All the plugins shown in this recipe will add a lot of possibilities in your programming kit bag.
Let's have a look at an example: You have a workflow that deploys a VM and after it is finished you would like to send an acknowledgment e-mail to a user and a CSV file to a CMDB (Content Management Database).
Another example would be current or legacy systems that have an SSH interface but no API or plug-in available. The SSH plug-in could be used to SCP files/scripts to and from the target system, automatically backup configurations, or apply approved configurations.