community.general.slack – Sends play events to a Slack channel

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community.general.slack – Sends play events to a Slack channel

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.slack.


Synopsis

  • This is an ansible callback plugin that sends status updates to a Slack channel during playbook execution.
  • Before 2.4 only environment variables were available for configuring this plugin

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.

  • whitelist in configuration
  • prettytable (python library)

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments

channel

string

Default:

"#ansible"

ini entries: [callback_slack]channel = #ansible


env:SLACK_CHANNEL

Slack room to post in.

username

string

Default:

"ansible"

ini entries: [callback_slack]username = ansible


env:SLACK_USERNAME

Username to post as.

validate_certs

boolean

  • no
  • yes

ini entries: [callback_slack]validate_certs = yes


env:SLACK_VALIDATE_CERTS

validate the SSL certificate of the Slack server. (For HTTPS URLs)

webhook_url

string / required

ini entries: [callback_slack]webhook_url = None


env:SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL

Slack Webhook URL



Authors

  • Unknown (!UNKNOWN)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/slack_callback.html