community.general.mattermost – Send Mattermost notifications¶

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

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

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

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Synopsis ¶

Sends notifications to http://your.mattermost.url via the Incoming WebHook integration.

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_key string / required		Mattermost webhook api key. Log into your mattermost site, go to Menu -> Integration -> Incoming Webhook -> Add Incoming Webhook. This will give you full URL. api_key is the last part. http://mattermost.example.com/hooks/`API_KEY`
channel string		Channel to send the message to. If absent, the message goes to the channel selected for the api_key.
icon_url string	Default: "https://www.ansible.com/favicon.ico"	Url for the message sender's icon.
text string / required		Text to send. Note that the module does not handle escaping characters.
url string / required		Mattermost url (i.e. http://mattermost.yourcompany.com).
username string	Default: "Ansible"	This is the sender of the message (Username Override need to be enabled by mattermost admin, see mattermost doc.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples ¶

- name: Send notification message via Mattermost
  community.general.mattermost:
    url: http://mattermost.example.com
    api_key: my_api_key
    text: '{{ inventory_hostname }} completed'

- name: Send notification message via Mattermost all options
  community.general.mattermost:
    url: http://mattermost.example.com
    api_key: my_api_key
    text: '{{ inventory_hostname }} completed'
    channel: notifications
    username: 'Ansible on {{ inventory_hostname }}'
    icon_url: http://www.example.com/some-image-file.png

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
payload string	success	Mattermost payload
webhook_url string	success	URL the webhook is sent to

Authors¶

Benjamin Jolivot (@bjolivot)

community.general.mattermost – Send Mattermost notifications¶

Synopsis¶

Parameters¶

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