community.general.pagerduty – Create PagerDuty maintenance windows

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.pagerduty.

Synopsis

  • This module will let you create PagerDuty maintenance windows

Requirements

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

  • PagerDuty API access

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
desc
string
Default:
"Created by Ansible"
Short description of maintenance window.
hours
string
Default:
"1"
Length of maintenance window in hours.
minutes
string
Default:
"0"
Maintenance window in minutes (this is added to the hours).
name
string
PagerDuty unique subdomain. Obsolete. It is not used with PagerDuty REST v2 API.
requester_id
string
ID of user making the request. Only needed when creating a maintenance_window.
service
list / elements=string
A comma separated list of PagerDuty service IDs.

aliases: services
state
string / required
    Choices:
  • running
  • started
  • ongoing
  • absent
Create a maintenance window or get a list of ongoing windows.
token
string / required
A pagerduty token, generated on the pagerduty site. It is used for authorization.
user
string
PagerDuty user ID. Obsolete. Please, use token for authorization.
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.
window_id
string
ID of maintenance window. Only needed when absent a maintenance_window.

Examples

- name: List ongoing maintenance windows using a token
  community.general.pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    state: ongoing

- name: Create a 1 hour maintenance window for service FOO123
  community.general.pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: [email protected]
    token: yourtoken
    state: running
    service: FOO123

- name: Create a 5 minute maintenance window for service FOO123
  community.general.pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    hours: 0
    minutes: 5
    state: running
    service: FOO123


- name: Create a 4 hour maintenance window for service FOO123 with the description "deployment"
  community.general.pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: [email protected]
    state: running
    service: FOO123
    hours: 4
    desc: deployment
  register: pd_window

- name: Delete the previous maintenance window
  community.general.pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: [email protected]
    state: absent
    window_id: '{{ pd_window.result.maintenance_window.id }}'

# Delete a maintenance window from a separate playbook than its creation,
# and if it is the only existing maintenance window
- name: Check
  community.general.pagerduty:
    requester_id: XXXXXXX
    token: yourtoken
    state: ongoing
  register: pd_window

- name: Delete
  community.general.pagerduty:
    requester_id: XXXXXXX
    token: yourtoken
    state: absent
    window_id: "{{ pd_window.result.maintenance_windows[0].id }}"

Authors

  • Andrew Newdigate (@suprememoocow)

  • Dylan Silva (@thaumos)

  • Justin Johns (!UNKNOWN)

  • Bruce Pennypacker (@bpennypacker)