sns – Send Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) messages

sns – Send Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) messages

New in version 1.6.

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• The sns module sends notifications to a topic on your Amazon SNS account

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• boto
• python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
aws_access_key -		AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key -		AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
ec2_url -		Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
email -		Message to send to email-only subscription
http -		Message to send to HTTP-only subscription
https -		Message to send to HTTPS-only subscription
message_attributes -		Dictionary of message attributes. These are optional structured data entries to be sent along to the endpoint. This is in AWS's distinct Name/Type/Value format; see example below.
message_structure - / required	json ← string	The payload format to use for the message. This must be 'json' to support non-default messages (`http`, `https`, `email`, `sms`, `sqs`). It must be 'string' to support message_attributes.
msg - / required		Default message to send. aliases: default
profile - added in 1.6		Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region -		The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
security_token - added in 1.6		AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used. aliases: access_token
sms -		Message to send to SMS-only subscription
sqs -		Message to send to SQS-only subscription
subject -		Subject line for email delivery.
topic - / required		The topic you want to publish to.
validate_certs boolean added in 1.5	no yes ←	When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Notes

Note

• If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION
• Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
• AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

Examples

- name: Send default notification message via SNS
  sns:
    msg: '{{ inventory_hostname }} has completed the play.'
    subject: Deploy complete!
    topic: deploy
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Send notification messages via SNS with short message for SMS
  sns:
    msg: '{{ inventory_hostname }} has completed the play.'
    sms: deployed!
    subject: Deploy complete!
    topic: deploy
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Send message with message_attributes
  sns:
    topic: "deploy"
    msg: "message with extra details!"
    message_attributes:
      channel:
        data_type: String
        string_value: "mychannel"
      color:
        data_type: String
        string_value: "green"
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Michael J. Schultz (@mjschultz)

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.7/modules/sns_module.html