sns – Send Amazon Simple Notification Service messages

Synopsis

  • Sends a notification to a topic on your Amazon SNS account.

Requirements

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

  • boto
  • boto3
  • botocore
  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
application
-
added in 2.8
Message to send to application subscriptions
aws_access_key
string
AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key
string
AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
debug_botocore_endpoint_logs
boolean
added in 2.8
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.
ec2_url
string
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 subscriptions.
email_json
-
added in 2.8
Message to send to email-json subscriptions
http
-
Message to send to HTTP subscriptions
https
-
Message to send to HTTPS subscriptions
lambda
-
added in 2.8
Message to send to Lambda subscriptions
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
-
    Choices:
  • json ←
  • string
The payload format to use for the message.
This must be 'json' to support protocol-specific messages (`http`, `https`, `email`, `sms`, `sqs`). It must be 'string' to support message_attributes.
msg
- / required
Default message for subscriptions without a more specific message.

aliases: default
profile
string
Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region
string
The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
security_token
string
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 subscriptions
sqs
-
Message to send to SQS subscriptions
subject
-
Message subject
topic
- / required
The name or ARN of the topic to publish to.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • 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

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
message_id
string
when success
The message ID of the submitted message

Sample:
2f681ef0-6d76-5c94-99b2-4ae3996ce57b
msg
string
always
Human-readable diagnostic information

Sample:
OK


Status

Authors

  • Michael J. Schultz (@mjschultz)
  • Paul Arthur (@flowerysong)

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