community.general.sendgrid module – Sends an email with the SendGrid API

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 7.5.2).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

Synopsis

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

Aliases: notification.sendgrid

Requirements

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

  • sendgrid Python library 1.6.22 or lower (Sendgrid API V2 supported)

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_key

string

Sendgrid API key to use instead of username/password.

attachments

list / elements=path

A list of relative or explicit paths of files you want to attach (7MB limit as per SendGrid docs).

bcc

list / elements=string

A list of email addresses to bcc.

body

string / required

The e-mail body content.

cc

list / elements=string

A list of email addresses to cc.

from_address

string / required

The address in the “from” field for the email.

from_name

string

The name you want to appear in the from field, i.e ‘John Doe’.

headers

dictionary

A dict to pass on as headers.

html_body

boolean

Whether the body is html content that should be rendered.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

password

string

Password that corresponds to the username.

Since 2.2 it is only required if api_key is not supplied.

subject

string / required

The desired subject for the email.

to_addresses

list / elements=string / required

A list with one or more recipient email addresses.

username

string

Username for logging into the SendGrid account.

Since 2.2 it is only required if api_key is not supplied.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

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 Ansible 2.2 username and password are not required if you supply an api_key

Examples

- name: Send an email to a single recipient that the deployment was successful
  community.general.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

- name: Send an email to more than one recipient that the build failed
  community.general.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

Authors

  • Matt Makai (@makaimc)