community.general.rocketchat module – Send notifications to Rocket Chat

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.5).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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

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

Synopsis

  • This module sends notifications to Rocket Chat through the Incoming WebHook integration.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

attachments

list / elements=dictionary

Define a list of attachments.

channel

string

Channel to send the message to. If absent, the message goes to the channel selected for the token specified during the creation of webhook.

color

string

Allow text to use default colors - use the default of normal to not send a custom color bar at the start of the message.

Choices:

  • "normal" ← (default)

  • "good"

  • "warning"

  • "danger"

domain

string / required

The domain for your environment without protocol. (For example example.com or chat.example.com).

icon_emoji

string

Emoji for the message sender. The representation for the available emojis can be got from Rocket Chat.

For example :thumbsup:.

If icon_emoji is set, icon_url is not used.

icon_url

string

URL for the message sender’s icon.

Default: "https://docs.ansible.com/favicon.ico"

is_pre740

boolean

added in community.general 10.5.0

If true, the payload matches Rocket.Chat prior to 7.4.0 format. This format has been used by the module since its inception, but is no longer supported by Rocket.Chat 7.4.0.

The default value of the option is going to change to false eventually.

This parameter is going to be removed in a future release when Rocket.Chat 7.4.0 becomes the minimum supported version.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

integer

Automatically create links for channels and usernames in msg.

Choices:

  • 1 ← (default)

  • 0

msg

string

Message to be sent.

protocol

string

Specify the protocol used to send notification messages before the webhook URL (that is, http or https).

Choices:

  • "http"

  • "https" ← (default)

token

string / required

Rocket Chat Incoming Webhook integration token. This provides authentication to Rocket Chat’s Incoming webhook for posting messages.

username

string

This is the sender of the message.

Default: "Ansible"

validate_certs

boolean

If false, SSL certificates are not validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Send notification message through Rocket Chat
  community.general.rocketchat:
    token: thetoken/generatedby/rocketchat
    domain: chat.example.com
    msg: '{{ inventory_hostname }} completed'
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Send notification message through Rocket Chat all options
  community.general.rocketchat:
    domain: chat.example.com
    token: thetoken/generatedby/rocketchat
    msg: '{{ inventory_hostname }} completed'
    channel: "#ansible"
    username: 'Ansible on {{ inventory_hostname }}'
    icon_url: http://www.example.com/some-image-file.png
    link_names: 0
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Insert a color bar in front of the message for visibility purposes and use the default webhook icon and name configured
    in rocketchat
  community.general.rocketchat:
    token: thetoken/generatedby/rocketchat
    domain: chat.example.com
    msg: '{{ inventory_hostname }} is alive!'
    color: good
    username: ''
    icon_url: ''
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Use the attachments API
  community.general.rocketchat:
    token: thetoken/generatedby/rocketchat
    domain: chat.example.com
    attachments:
      - text: Display my system load on host A and B
        color: "#ff00dd"
        title: System load
        fields:
          - title: System A
            value: 'load average: 0,74, 0,66, 0,63'
            short: true
          - title: System B
            value: 'load average: 5,16, 4,64, 2,43'
            short: true
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

  • Ramon de la Fuente (@ramondelafuente)