Description

The community.aws.aws_ssm connection plugin is heavily used by the community but has never previously been considered for support inclusion. There are a number of bugs open for it now, and there's a history of contributors to it finding it difficult to work on and understand. A particular sticking point seems to have been the need to handle both Linux and Windows guests, as well as plugins (and particular connection plugins) just being a bit more complex than modules.

Please assess the current state of the code, determine what changes (bugfixes, features, something else) would be necessary to bring the module to a supportable state (ie; a list of jira tickets we would need), and make a recommendation of whether or not we should pursue this work.

Note: The integration tests are known to be currently broken. The module isn't, it's something to do with running the tests on Deb-based systems that suddenly started happening a few months ago. https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/blob/main/tests/integration/targets/connection_aws_ssm/aliases#L3