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.
webhook_url
- / required
ini entries:

[callback_slack]
webhook_url = VALUE

env:SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL
Slack Webhook URL

Status

Authors

  • UNKNOWN

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