sphinxcontrib-ansibleautodoc is an sphinx extension which can search task in ansible playbook and generate document.

pip install sphinxcontrib-ansibleautodoc

and add 'sphinxcontrib.ansibleautodoc' in extensions in your conf.py.

extensions = [
    'sphinxcontrib.ansibleautodoc',
]

Currently there is one directive called ansibleautotask.

.. ansibleautotask:: second task
   :playbook: ../ansible/web.yml

The contents of this directive is an ansible task name. If task does not have a name, directive can not find.

playbook option is for specify initial ansible playbook. ansibleautodoc scan the playbook and read include and roles as followes. So you need only one playbook file.

Ansible

https://ansible.com

2-clause BSD License