community.general.rocketchat – Send notifications to Rocket Chat

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.rocketchat.

Synopsis

• The rocketchat module sends notifications to Rocket Chat via the Incoming WebHook integration

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
attachments list / elements=dictionary		Define a list of attachments.
channel string		Channel to send the message to. If absent, the message goes to the channel selected for the token specified during the creation of webhook.
color string	Choices: normal ← good warning danger	Allow text to use default colors - use the default of 'normal' to not send a custom color bar at the start of the message
domain string / required		The domain for your environment without protocol. (i.e. example.com or chat.example.com)
icon_emoji string		Emoji for the message sender. The representation for the available emojis can be got from Rocket Chat. (for example :thumbsup:) (if icon_emoji is set, icon_url will not be used)
icon_url string	Default: "https://www.ansible.com/favicon.ico"	URL for the message sender's icon.
link_names integer	Choices: 1 0 Default: 1	Automatically create links for channels and usernames in msg.
msg string		Message to be sent.
protocol string	Choices: http https ←	Specify the protocol used to send notification messages before the webhook url. (i.e. http or https)
token string / required		Rocket Chat Incoming Webhook integration token. This provides authentication to Rocket Chat's Incoming webhook for posting messages.
username string	Default: "Ansible"	This is the sender of the message.
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 Rocket Chat
  community.general.rocketchat:
    token: thetoken/generatedby/rocketchat
    domain: chat.example.com
    msg: '{{ inventory_hostname }} completed'
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Send notification message via Rocket Chat all options
  community.general.rocketchat:
    domain: chat.example.com
    token: thetoken/generatedby/rocketchat
    msg: '{{ inventory_hostname }} completed'
    channel: #ansible
    username: 'Ansible on {{ inventory_hostname }}'
    icon_url: http://www.example.com/some-image-file.png
    link_names: 0
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Insert a color bar in front of the message for visibility purposes and use the default webhook icon and name configured in rocketchat
  community.general.rocketchat:
    token: thetoken/generatedby/rocketchat
    domain: chat.example.com
    msg: '{{ inventory_hostname }} is alive!'
    color: good
    username: ''
    icon_url: ''
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Use the attachments API
  community.general.rocketchat:
    token: thetoken/generatedby/rocketchat
    domain: chat.example.com
    attachments:
      - text: Display my system load on host A and B
        color: #ff00dd
        title: System load
        fields:
          - title: System A
            value: 'load average: 0,74, 0,66, 0,63'
            short: True
          - title: System B
            value: 'load average: 5,16, 4,64, 2,43'
            short: True
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
changed boolean	success	A flag indicating if any change was made or not.

Authors

• Ramon de la Fuente (@ramondelafuente)