slack – Sends play events to a Slack channel

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slack – Sends play events to a Slack channel

New in version 2.1.


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 master node that executes this callback.

  • whitelist in configuration
  • prettytable (python library)

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments

channel

-

Default:

"#ansible"

ini entries: [callback_slack]channel = #ansible


env:SLACK_CHANNEL

Slack room to post in.

username

-

Default:

"ansible"

ini entries: [callback_slack]username = ansible


env:SLACK_USERNAME

Username to post as.

validate_certs

boolean

added in 2.8

  • 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

- / required

ini entries: [callback_slack]webhook_url = VALUE


env:SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL

Slack Webhook URL



Status

Authors

  • UNKNOWN

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/plugins/callback/slack.html