sendgrid – Sends an email with the SendGrid API

Synopsis

• Sends an email with a SendGrid account through their API, not through the SMTP service.

Requirements

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

• sendgrid python library

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_key -		sendgrid API key to use instead of username/password
attachments -		a list of relative or explicit paths of files you want to attach (7MB limit as per SendGrid docs)
bcc -		a list of email addresses to bcc
cc -		a list of email addresses to cc
from_address - / required		the address in the "from" field for the email
from_name -		the name you want to appear in the from field, i.e 'John Doe'
headers -		a dict to pass on as headers
html_body boolean	Choices: no ← yes	whether the body is html content that should be rendered
password -		password that corresponds to the username Since 2.2 it is only required if api_key is not supplied.
subject - / required		the desired subject for the email
to_addresses - / required		a list with one or more recipient email addresses
username -		username for logging into the SendGrid account. Since 2.2 it is only required if api_key is not supplied.

Notes

Note

• This module is non-idempotent because it sends an email through the external API. It is idempotent only in the case that the module fails.
• Like the other notification modules, this one requires an external dependency to work. In this case, you’ll need an active SendGrid account.
• In order to use api_key, cc, bcc, attachments, from_name, html_body, headers you must pip install sendgrid
• since 2.2 username and password are not required if you supply an api_key

Examples

# send an email to a single recipient that the deployment was successful
- sendgrid:
    username: "{{ sendgrid_username }}"
    password: "{{ sendgrid_password }}"
    from_address: "[email protected]"
    to_addresses:
      - "[email protected]"
    subject: "Deployment success."
    body: "The most recent Ansible deployment was successful."
  delegate_to: localhost

# send an email to more than one recipient that the build failed
- sendgrid:
      username: "{{ sendgrid_username }}"
      password: "{{ sendgrid_password }}"
      from_address: "[email protected]"
      to_addresses:
        - "[email protected]"
        - "[email protected]"
      subject: "Build failure!."
      body: "Unable to pull source repository from Git server."
  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

• Matt Makai (@makaimc)

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