Chapter 9. Essential Plugins

In this recipe, we are looking at essential plugins that are often used. We will be looking at the following plugins:

  • Working with e-mail
  • File operations
  • Working with SSH
  • Working with REST

Introduction

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 ...

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