Newbie, what's a good plugin development workflow?

[Kent Larsson]

Hi,

I'm about to create a vars_plugins to read a JSON, modify it quite heavily and then expose it as a variable for my playbooks.

What is a good development workflow? Do I have to run the plugin as part of a playbook repeatedly? How do you work when creating a plugin?

And if it turns out usable, what is the best way to publish it at Ansible Galaxy in the (probably far) future? A collection feels a bit much as it's only one plugin, but perhaps it's best practise?

Have a great day!